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Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He would say he 'd sent one off but it probably would n't arrive for months , you know what they do with holiday mail , fly it out to sea and drop it in .
2	If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it .
3	They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ .
4	Put it down to exhaustion after too much cricket !
5	They put it down to indecision and the overwhelming charms of both suitors .
6	Put it down to luck .
7	That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts .
8	Put it back to fibre , go back to your bit on fibre
9	It was very well knitted and the gorgeous yarn used set it off to perfection .
10	Inorganic compounds are used to absorb the sunlight and then pass it on to water .
11	Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it .
12	You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins .
13	At once , ’ said the landlord , hastily bending to put a couple of logs on the fire and poke it back to life .
14	Police acted immediately to evacuate the area and seal it off to traffic .
15	Right , turn it down to number one .
16	And turn it down to number one and it .
17	That 's my pocket notebook and I keep it up to date , that 's another piece of equipment I use .
18	they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past .
19	I bring it up to date in a solemn
20	Please ensure that you check your list and bring it up to date now and return to the Office .
21	Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er .
22	The acid rains , bring it up to date .
23	and the idea is so you , you push it down to earth , you want it down to there
24	She shuddered and found herself whispering : ‘ Make it back to base , Johnny .
25	If he wishes to make an adjustment , would not it be more sensible to detach their role from advocacy of method and confine it solely to inspection ?
26	Joe Orr , the publican 's son , would surreptitiously take a beer bottle , ‘ fill it up when his father was n't about , see , and put it in his pocket , then take it up to granny .
27	‘ Now go into the kitchen and take the tray which you 'll find waiting on the table on the left and take it up to room five on the third floor . ’
28	No you can during the week , but what 'll we do , she said well got a buyer take it back to customer services .
29	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 .
30	But ee , if Miss comes in I do n't have to do it , I just hand it over to Miss and bugger off .