Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 2 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 3 | Mimms went for a cross he was never going to reach , Jason Dozzell helped it on to Kiwomya , and the in-form striker calmly lobbed home the winner past the despairing lunge of Nicky Marker . |
| 4 | And I had to my satisfaction traced it back to Jules and Boris [ Yul 's grandfather and father , both of whom deserted their families ] . ’ |
| 5 | I realized what I was doing and decided to have this problem analyzed , and I traced it back to when I was in hospital as a child . |
| 6 | This time he traced it back to the servant in the bedroom — he blocked out or refused to remember her name — a cold witch , he decided , a witch who would find no satiation in this world , maybe even a spirit brought back to test and ruin those who had intercourse with her . |
| 7 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 8 | If he found that the archbishop disliked a nomination , he coolly referred it back to Downing Street . |
| 9 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 10 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 11 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 12 | For a time it was held at Bologna , in the papal states , but the imperial representatives protested and the pope moved it back to Trent . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell you what ? ’ he asked as he hastily clamped her hand still and moved it back to his chest . |
| 14 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 15 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 16 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 17 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 18 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied and dropped it on to the couchette . |
| 20 | He reached out and drew the object from Susan 's ear , then dropped it on to her plate . |
| 21 | He dropped it on to the desk in front of Scott who picked it up , studying the outlines of Paula Wilson 's face . |
| 22 | Hooking the shirt off over his dripping head , he dropped it on to the pile . |
| 23 | nanny 's down the road , but Carl was in this morning so I dropped it off to him it 's gon na be a long time |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , on Master Of Puppets we dropped it down to D and live we took it down to C sharp . |
| 25 | So I hired it out to people and work night and day when the weather was bonny , combining their barley and that . |
| 26 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 27 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 28 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 29 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 30 | If you played it out to the left of the fairway it was down-wind and a difficult shot . |