Example sentences of "to it [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also more toxic , and from an early stage a further disadvantage gradually became apparent : tubercle bacilli become resistant to it remarkably quickly . |
| 2 | I did n't have much choice , I was n't listening to it anyway so then I got quite to like it then . |
| 3 | ‘ OK , I 'll get on to it straight away , see what I can do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Despite the fact that you agreed to it little more than twenty-four hours ago ? ’ |
| 5 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 6 | I 'll probably refer to it again later on . |
| 7 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 8 | In 1906 – 14 successive foreign ministers were authorised by the tsar to report to it on only five occasions . |
| 9 | His account of the common dolphin , written nearly 2500 years ago , is so thorough that little can be added to it even today . |
| 10 | The sociologically based interview has thus rather more to it than merely being a test of the reaction to Brand X. Here a difficulty does arise though , and it is best to face up to it right away . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll get on to it right away . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll get Waters on to it right away . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get on to it right away , ’ promised McPhee . |
| 14 | ‘ So the puppets have to strip off and get down to it pretty quickly , ’ Barry explained . |
| 15 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |
| 16 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 17 | I remember listening to it once just before the Alamein battle . |
| 18 | The missa parodia was , of course , nothing new but these composers devoted themselves to it almost exclusively and developed new techniques . |
| 19 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 20 | This change of mood was gradual , but the germs of militancy within the deaf community go back to the war years , although the BDDA leadership responded to it only slowly . |
| 21 | Others too have remarked on it — the queen my mother made reference to it only yesternight … ’ |
| 22 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 23 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 24 | In Extract 4 , there is again a turn-final switch , but this time , the speaker builds up to it more clearly . |
| 25 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 26 | Getting used to it now though , it do n't bother me really I did n't do much for it anyway so |
| 27 | It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently . |
| 28 | ‘ I came to it so strangely with Tom . |
| 29 | Came to it so strangely ? ’ |
| 30 | I did n't see it ; he went to it so suddenly , |