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

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1 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 ’ .
2 Yet most of the buildings we see today date from the 12th century or later — Henry II 's great medieval fortress , strengthened in the 13th century , was remodelled by Georgian and Victorian engineers to keep it up to date .
3 He was still making corrections ; he was doing his best to keep it up to date .
4 Well I 'd have to make something to mount it on to go right on the corner but
5 Replace it with a plastic one , but make sure you 'll be able to get it through to loft hatch .
6 The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger .
7 Considerable renovation is required to bring it up to standard .
8 litre turbo diesel , which gains refinements like electric windows to bring it up to CD level , mirroring a demand for refinement from diesel buyers these days .
9 And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version .
10 And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ?
11 The young Ulster Youth Dance company has already shown that the dancers have the ability to match the dramatic intensity and sensitivity of this great work and to bring it triumphantly to life .
12 But the match needed an attacking spark from Romario or Careca to bring it fully to life and the goal saved the evening a damp , dismal denouement .
13 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 .
14 To bring it down to earth , she ended with a pet joke phrase of theirs — ‘ tears before bedtime ! ’
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