Example sentences of "to it [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
2 | The strong wind stance described earlier is the basis of the funboard stance , but to it we can add a further ingredient — the hips and bottom . |
3 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
4 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
5 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
6 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
7 | You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you |
8 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
9 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
10 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
11 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
12 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
13 | But there was a quality to it he would not have expected . |
14 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
15 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
16 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
17 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
18 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
19 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
20 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
21 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
22 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
23 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
24 | There was never my my view and and one day I shall if I ever get round to it I might set this all out . |
25 | well er , you know if it comes to it I 'll have to . |
26 | I can not find the page now through all that excitement here when I get to it I 'll get to it some time page twenty five I 'll be alright . |
27 | to it I would recheck that in October . |
28 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
29 | Erm but taking a very broad approach to it it may be that we can suggest to the receivers of that erm taking the inconvenience , the extra cost and so on , roughly say half of that account erm |
30 | Peggy wanted to laugh , but she knew if she gave way to it it might turn to hysteria . |