Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the drawing made it back to civilisation the pickled head , along with the rest of the ship , was lost . |
2 | Sunderland turned it on to win 3–0 against Ipswich and end their dismal sequence of five league defeats but Crosby expects an entirely different type of game against a side battling desperately for survival . |
3 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
4 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
5 | Shamlou put it down to war weariness . |
6 | Beuno swung it up to eye-level . |
7 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |