Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 3 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 4 | It got to Number Four in the British charts . |
| 5 | Oh I du n no , it got to number one . |
| 6 | It got to number one here . |
| 7 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |
| 8 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 9 | One half of the dowry , four hundred marks , you will pay to our treasurer here by this day week , and we ourselves will see it conveyed to Master Parry . |
| 10 | It laid to rest the charges of unreliability and less-than-advertised performance that have long dogged the Pentagon . |
| 11 | Having outlined the snowballing process itself , the following sections will present the findings concerning the two principal tasks that it sought to accomplish-measuring the size of the hidden heroin sector and identifying variations between the profiles of known and unknown users . |
| 12 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 13 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 14 | It did n't matter in the end , as it sold to dealer David Petrovsky ( underbid by Caldwell ) for $44,000 , who has of yet not discovered it in any photographic reference . |
| 15 | It led to frustration on his part . |
| 16 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 17 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 18 | He had his house in Spain , his ease , his investments ; when immediate success did not come his way , it led to disaffection . |
| 19 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 20 | It led to psychiatry being established as a profession in it 's own right and the ackowledgement that the mentally ill needed specialist care . |
| 21 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 22 | While this view could equally have generated stoicism , in Mum 's case it led to self-pity . |
| 23 | Grumman cut its capital spending to $50m last year , or under half the $105m it charged to depreciation and amortisation . |
| 24 | The role of the UN would be to supervise elections , if possible throughout Korea but if not in south Korea alone , and to afford some measure of protection to the infant state as it moved to independence . |
| 25 | The Law Society was striking various poses in 1968 and 1969 , but from apparently implacable opposition to the original scheme of salaried solicitors contemplated in the 1949 Act ( to depart from the alternative system adopted in 1959 would be ‘ a serious mistake ’ ) and the proposals of Justice for All , it moved to acceptance of salaried solicitors as part of its own proposals for an Advisory Liaison Service . |
| 26 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 27 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |
| 28 | Mother watched in horror as the fly fell from its mouth and it swam to freedom . |
| 29 | When the name was officially changed the term ‘ non-objective ’ fell into general disfavour , possibly because of a public mis-perception that it referred to art without a purpose . |
| 30 | Pearce look for Phillips on the right Lewis got there first but it dropped to Stone . |