Example sentences of "[verb] it down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put it down to exhaustion after too much cricket ! |
| 2 | They put it down to indecision and the overwhelming charms of both suitors . |
| 3 | Put it down to luck . |
| 4 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 5 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 6 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 7 | If they have n't got it well He said if , I can always cut it down to size and that . |
| 8 | and sort it out , let me know and then I will take it down to work |
| 9 | Right , turn it down to number one . |
| 10 | And turn it down to number one and it . |
| 11 | and the idea is so you , you push it down to earth , you want it down to there |
| 12 | Well I 'll show you the , the what do you call it , the back , what the sugar did , and I 'm putting it down to sugar . |
| 13 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 14 | TO be fair , you could put it down to jet lag and a 12-hour flight . |
| 15 | ‘ You must put it down to jet lag and worry over my sister ; I 'm not usually so easily fooled . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His changed expression showed her that clearly , and she knew too he put it down to greed . |
| 18 | Shamlou put it down to war weariness . |
| 19 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 20 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 21 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 22 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 23 | To bring it down to earth , she ended with a pet joke phrase of theirs — ‘ tears before bedtime ! ’ |