Example sentences of "to bring it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the choreographer may be inspired by a piece of music and wish to bring it to life in dance ( see page 41 ) . |
| 3 | The rain returned in earnest and , for all the skill and craft of Valdo , Alemao and the rest , the evening desperately needed an explosion from Careca or Romario near goal to bring it to life . |
| 4 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 5 | Once the basic idea for the advertisement has been agreed , it falls to the art director , in consultation with the writer , to bring it to life visually in commercials , advertisements , and printed material such as brochures and leaflets , and point of sale — material , which are show cards and other items for display actually in the stores . |
| 6 | The world may be shriveling around you but you are doing your bit to bring it to life again . |
| 7 | While her body , like a desert longing for rain to bring it to life , switched to hold and waited for him to fulfil his promise of delight . |
| 8 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 9 | Dismantling the Clunbury coach had to take priority for a while but now our minds are firmly on the bridge project and we would like like to bring it to completion as soon as possible . |
| 10 | ’ He left the thought hanging and I did nothing to bring it to earth . |
| 11 | At first glance it appears that Braudel has merely hit on a convenient fashion of dividing up the past , to bring it under control and make it easier for historians to encompass . |
| 12 | Alison noticed the momentary tension , but he seemed to bring it under control pretty quickly . |
| 13 | Pascoe 's mind was racing so fast he had to make an effort of will to bring it under control . |
| 14 | The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control . |
| 15 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 16 | It took around fifty officers two hours to bring it under control . |
| 17 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |
| 18 | We managed to bring it under control thanks to some courageous action by staff . |
| 19 | As he told Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone , Archbishop of Toulouse : ‘ At least I have launched this big ship — others will have to bring it into port . ‘ |
| 20 | For all the unmanoeuvrability of armour in the inhospitable southern sector , the Iraqi leadership evidently decided to retain the option to bring it into play at some stage , at least during the warmer months . |
| 21 | In a Andean Declaration on the initiative , the participants agreed to work with other Latin American countries and the USA in order to formulate the necessary mechanisms to bring it into existence . |
| 22 | However , Czechoslovakia had continued building a power station at Gabcikovo , and was reportedly considering diverting the Danube to bring it into operation . |
| 23 | Indeed it would seem that these paintings undercut their initial didacticism and that order is evoked primarily to bring it into question . |
| 24 | The land itself was poor — wild and unmanured' — and the lessees were compelled to bring Huguenot refugees ‘ from Hatfield chase ’ , who would undertake to do what was necessary to bring it into cultivation and pay a reasonable rent . |
| 25 | For most cuts , the work is steadied against the foot plate which can be angled to bring it into contact with the workpiece ; because the teeth of the sawblade tend to become worn close to the foot plate , the plate can be unclamped and moved forwards to bring a fresh section of the blade into use . |
| 26 | If the machine 's speed is sufficient to bring it into contact with a target then it is considered to have charged . |
| 27 | Paul Lexington Productions had been able to mount The Hooded Owl at Taunton , but had been unable to bring it into town without Bobby Anscombe 's support . |
| 28 | The reason why changes ought to be made in language is to bring it into line with the way things really are . |
| 29 | GS , and GT at the high-end wo n't be getting too much more attention , though GT prices are to be cut to bring it into line with Freedom . |
| 30 | It is desirable that a means be found of revising the Supplement text to bring it into line with the OED in this respect . |