Example sentences of "[v-ing] it to the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Well they 're on about backdating it to the third .
2 Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position .
3 Timeless words of great writers are learned by rote , the individual becoming the book and , in turn , teaching it to the next generation .
4 The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows .
5 For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one .
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