Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This permits you to design the copper track layout on paper at leisure , changing it around at will before finally committing it to etching . |
| 2 | So just flogging it to death |
| 3 | When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower he described the North American landscape as a ‘ hideous and desolate wilderness , ’ and promptly set about bringing it to heel just his ancestors had done so successfully throughout Europe . |
| 4 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 5 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 6 | Prometheus tried to rival a God called Zeus by stealing fire from heaven then giving it to Earth which is similar to Frankenstein 's actions because he stole the secret of life and proposed to give this to humans until it went disastrously wrong . |