Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’
2 ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting .
3 And it sailed off to a island that it came to .
4 Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality .
5 It looked on to a pool , one of several small pools created by the removal of clay for the reserve 's perimeter wall .
6 It scurried over to a pile of old newspapers with the mongrel in close attendance .
7 As it went down to a flutter of clapping , John added : ‘ They wanted to study the effects .
8 I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake .
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