Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 2 | He tapped in the code , then waited , knowing the signal was being scrambled through as many as a dozen sub-routes before it got to its destination . |
| 3 | Twenty one years later it passed to his son-in-law , Mark Rainsford I , whose beers and fine ales were brewed here in turn by his son Mark Rainsford II . |
| 4 | Following his death , it passed to his son . |
| 5 | Knee-length , it clung to her figure lovingly . |
| 6 | The tears were moistening her hair so that it clung to her cheeks , and they did n't look like stopping . |
| 7 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 8 | Ostensibly her idea was a good one , but she found that praise was , for that child , not a reward at all ; in fact it led to his communicating with her less often . |
| 9 | It was by then already obvious that the schools had overcome their first reservations er about what the scheme had to offer and it was so obvious that they deserved recognition for their efforts that it led to my colleagues , Councillor and putting down the motion to Council in April of this year , drawing attention to the continuing success in schools throughout the district of the Local Management initiative . |
| 10 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 11 | Hospice medication was always given in doses adequate to give relief of pain and other symptoms , even at the risk of shortening life , and this could improve , of only temporarily , the quality of life of the patient as it drew to its close . |
| 12 | Efficient as it undoubtedly was , the incinerator loo was n't for the workforce who feared the menace it posed to their privates . |
| 13 | As it was , Clare had acquired a taste for reading , and had her nose constantly in a book ; and it occurred to her mother that she might very well undertake the tuition of Olivia , to save the cost of hiring another governess . |
| 14 | Then one night the child fell onto the bass drum , plummeting ten feet into the orchestra pit without seeming to harbour a grudge , and it occurred to his father to try bouncing him . |
| 15 | Recently it occurred to my mother and me that it would be foolish to go riding alone without any sort of personal insurance for the rider . |
| 16 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 17 | It dropped to its forearms and padded slowly to left and right . |
| 18 | The Sika 's head jerked ; it dropped to its knees and keeled over . |
| 19 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |
| 20 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 21 | It received the wire services of Reuters and AFP , which it retransmitted to its customers , including the Times and the Mail . |
| 22 | That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him . |
| 23 | It added to his attractiveness , hinting at an untamed individuality which was far removed from the tedium of conventional male good looks . |
| 24 | There seems no point in pretending that he was reluctant to serve the Tory Party in this way , though it added to his unpopularity with the younger Liberals . |
| 25 | He did not , but it added to his anger and Maggie was pleased that she had not been there early . |
| 26 | But in fact it added to my Saturday work because I was expected to clean more with the new machine . |
| 27 | When it came to their turn , both men shook Elsa Lawrence 's hand , felt her limp grasp in theirs . |
| 28 | But when it came to their sex life , Antonia was boss of the futon frolics . |
| 29 | till it came to its senses ; disappeared downwards . |
| 30 | Only that morning she had stood , she , Kitty Bainbridge , had actually stood in a queue for nail polish , and when it came to her turn there was no more left . |