Example sentences of "it [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations . |
| 2 | She could use it for spills to light her fags . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 4 | There was a little hand-bell by her place ; she rang it for Bernadette to come and clear the breakfast plates away . |
| 5 | Yet , how possible is it for teachers to take such an educational stance with children towards the immensely depressing social issue of their communities ? |
| 6 | Tobacco advertisers immediately latched on to the idea , and plagiarised it for decades to come . |
| 7 | When each letter is found , the child records it but leaves it for others to find . |
| 8 | I screwed the note into a ball and threw it for Springsteen to play with . |
| 9 | We had to sit there watching it for days to keep away the dogs and chickens and stop the crows and vultures swooping down and snatching it away . ’ |
| 10 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 11 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 12 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 13 | For years , marble was refused to people wanting it for tombs to provide a supply for the Moloch in Bucharest . |
| 14 | You may need it as evidence to support your claim . |
| 15 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 16 | I 've simplified it as information to save time . |
| 17 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 18 | I 've got some supermarket , and er , a bar , and this alsatian dog that Margot wanted to er take it through customs to look after it . |
| 19 | You may feel it worth while to spend a year abroad . |
| 20 | Even so , some mammal parents still find it worth while to deposit their babies in a creche . |
| 21 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
| 22 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 23 | Evidently , people in this street were used to strange cars being parked and nobody had thought it worth while to ring the police , despite the fact that the doors bristled with Neighbourhood Watch signs . |
| 24 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 25 | No one seems to have any idea why ; but hardly anyone seems to have thought it worth while to try to find out … |
| 26 | Clare would n't put it past Sam to use a rat to lay a trap for her . |
| 27 | Princes on white chargers are like bloodhounds , over mountain ranges and mighty oceans they can scent the whiff of virginal longing and are drawn to it like wasps to jam jars . |
| 28 | They were notoriously warlike , subduing or assimilating lesser tribes and raiding sketchy Roman settlements to loot silver and make it into ornaments to add to their warpaint . |
| 29 | SENTIMENTAL comedy JERSEY GIRL ( Cert15 ; W.E. ) stars Jami Gertz as Toby who wants a break from the ‘ going nowhere ’ men she dates in New Jersey and legs it into Manhattan to meet Mr Right . |
| 30 | ‘ To Lawrence , the world is intrinsically a beautiful place , yet we will turn it into filth to get a smaller and less beautiful object out of it . ’ |