Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 2 | The bridge in Darlington that proudly displays the Teasdale Bros name is Stonebridge although the plaque on it refers to it as St Cuthbert 's Bridge . |
| 3 | It belongs to us as individuals regardless of the power of the State or the claims of the State . |
| 4 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
| 5 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 6 | They probably , they probably get it given to you on your school pizzas |
| 7 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 8 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 9 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 10 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 11 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 12 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 13 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 14 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 15 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 16 | It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered . |
| 17 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 18 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 19 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 20 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 21 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 23 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 24 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 25 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 26 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 27 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 28 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 29 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 30 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |