Example sentences of "it [pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it my turn to shop or yours ? ’ |
| 2 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |
| 3 | I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house . |
| 4 | ‘ I have made it my business to go after lost Leonardos now , ’ says Dr Pedretti , who worked closely with Kenneth Clark and took over his mantle as the world 's leading Leonardo expert . |
| 5 | You attempt to go near her again and I 'll make it my business to go across there … ’ |
| 6 | I know what 's going on , I do n't like it , and I 'm making it my business to see that it stops . " |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't make it my business to hire fools , Miss Emerson . |
| 8 | ‘ I made it my business to enquire just how serious your alleged relationship was . |
| 9 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |
| 10 | I made it my business to get him off . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , I 'm not complaining — I 've always made it my business to ensure that the women I meet are the sort who understand the rules and know how to play the game . |
| 12 | ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd be failing in my duty if I did n't make it my business to know who she 's consorting with . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ However , young or not , I felt it my duty to see you and explain . ’ |
| 16 | I feel it my duty to disclaim any such intention . |
| 17 | ‘ I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan ’ , he told the Palestinians . |
| 18 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |
| 19 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 20 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I considered it my duty to get informed about politics because I had a vote . |
| 22 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 23 | I consider it my duty to help in any way I can . |
| 24 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
| 26 | As there is no dinner served at Eagle House , it is quite usual for John and Rosamund to find their guests dinner bookings , and they consider it their responsibility to find an eating establishment to suit the purse and palate of each guest . |
| 27 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 28 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Students , feeling it their duty to point out the shortcomings of policies and personalities in Chinese politics , exercised their traditional custom of remonstrating several times throughout Deng 's decade of reform . |
| 30 | Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ . |