Example sentences of "[adv] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 3 | He sees it as : a matter of individuals attempting , incompletely , to make sense of the total environment in which they find themselves and to respond rightly to it . |
| 4 | This combined emphasis — that doubt is not the same as unbelief but can lead naturally to it — directs us to a mature handling of doubt that avoids the extremes of being too hard or too soft on doubt . |
| 5 | Affection flowed naturally to it . |
| 6 | Whereas Paneth and Peters used hydrogen gas , Tanberg ‘ made ’ the gas from the water and , what 's more , he used palladium for the cathode so that the hydrogen was attracted naturally to it . |
| 7 | It learns most easily what comes naturally to it . |
| 8 | ‘ Near enough to it , ’ she said . |
| 9 | When it comes down to it you look after number one . |
| 10 | Most of us prefer to watch Dallas than our neighbours ' home-movies , because , when it comes down to it , we know that truth is generally a lot duller than fiction . |
| 11 | I 'm a schoolboy when it comes down to it . |
| 12 | A professional photographer really gets down to it … |
| 13 | It was all the Yeti 's doing when you come right down to it . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're just no good and were n't able to make yourselves get down to it . ’ |
| 15 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 16 | But when it comes down to it , the V8 is more a car for drivers than passengers . |
| 17 | For , when it comes down to it , there 's nothing to beat a brass band . |
| 18 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 19 | Just got down to it . ’ |
| 20 | When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul . |
| 21 | ( He was n't really lying — they did often think of it even if they did n't get down to it . ) |
| 22 | ‘ When you come down to it , I 'm getting paid for farting about all day long , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Cattle , herded down to it along drove-ways used from time immemorial , slowly graze across its moist levels . |
| 24 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 25 | What did that mean when it came down to it ? |
| 26 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 27 | ‘ I got down to it and stopped it . |
| 28 | Or you can calmly wink your acknowledgement of their presence , encourage your partner to favour them with a cheery salute , and continue gettin' down to it . |
| 29 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 30 | We got down to it immediately . |