Example sentences of "to it [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix .
2 months to get down to it with some coy types .
3 By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled .
4 First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative .
5 I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought .
6 But she took a dislike to it for some reason , she would n't go in it .
7 In Britain it is doubtful whether the personal accountability of an MP seeking reelection has anything like the importance attached to it by some theorists .
8 It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way .
9 He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way .
10 Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron .
11 This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters .
12 Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often .
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