Example sentences of "to it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where both men and women have been regularly exposed to it at work , nitrous oxide has been linked to a high rate of miscarriages . |
| 2 | I went to it at Christmas |
| 3 | And they wo n't be miming along to it at club PAs either . |
| 4 | I 've got one on page eighty-one , but we 'll come to it on pollution control . |
| 5 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
| 6 | nineteen thousand three hundred people have objected to it on petition . |
| 7 | It 's very very funny because I actually laughed about it when I listened to it on tape first of all and I felt well maybe |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody buys tickets for Box 5 , but the ghost always comes to it on opera nights . ’ |
| 9 | The relative speed with which emancipation came about after he ascended the throne gives the impression that he addressed himself to it with enthusiasm , but even in Russian politics six years was a long time . |
| 10 | As he thought of this he grasped on to it with relief for it seemed to give him a reason to do nothing , though in his heart he knew it was fear , not duty , that prevented him from flying . |
| 11 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 12 | The rink was on two levels and had an Alpine atmosphere to it with pine trees and the snowflake effects . |
| 13 | Then place a nearly-full pack of cards out on a table or , if you are performing this for a number of children , on a board with the cards lightly attached to it with scotch tape . |
| 14 | The barbel will not be far away from the snag , and the closer you can fish to it with safety the better your chances are of catching these big fish . |
| 15 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 16 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 17 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 18 | He clung to it for support , crouched for a view , glimpsed a retreating figure on the dwindling platform , then was swallowed in the soot-plumed tunnel . |
| 19 | On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal . |
| 20 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 21 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 22 | The chief danger from the resurgence of the far right in Western Europe lies not in the likelihood of its achieving any real influence , but in the reactions to it of centre right parties . |
| 23 | Terry got on to it through Amnesty International . |
| 24 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 25 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 26 | Or went to it during construction . |
| 27 | but we do n't usually refer to it as Clog 's theory or anything like that . |
| 28 | Probable sad answer : cling to it as part of Britain 's eccentric genius . |
| 29 | ‘ How many people have referred to it as theatre or television of the mind ? |
| 30 | The dimension of unc is that of voltage , so it is not surprising that many people refer to it as voltage or induced voltage , a usage into which I often lapse myself . |