Example sentences of "it [adv prt] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 2 | Even if the herb will eventually outgrow its container , you can still plant it when young , press its foliage and then , when it becomes too large , pass it on to a culinary-minded friend who has more space . |
| 3 | I launched it on to a small lake and , lying flat on its wooden platform , pressed my face close to the water . |
| 4 | Panther claims it will blast the Solo from standstill to 60mph in less than 6.0 seconds and take it on to a top speed in excess of 150mph . |
| 5 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 6 | Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple . |
| 7 | Find a large map of the world and trace it on to a large piece of paper . |
| 8 | Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour . |
| 9 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 10 | We finally tracked it down to a small covered trailer behind a parked car . |
| 11 | transformer to bring it down to a lower voltage . |
| 12 | I put it down to a lingering melancholy and sense of impending loss at leaving the melin , even though by now he was in full agreement . |
| 13 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 14 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 15 | You take it down to a running stream when the moon is at the full . |
| 16 | He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia . |
| 17 | We may be able to actually narrow it down to a particular bug and that 's what these are for . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose you could put it down to a bad mood , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 19 | One man had it down to a fine art — Lee Marvin . |
| 20 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 21 | I got it down to a fine art , but it was all additional pressure . |
| 22 | Slippery Elm you see you had to tape it down to a fine point and then insert it you see , and if you did n't get the right place well it 'd kill you . |
| 23 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 24 | The Assistant Manager took tremendous pride in who he invited ; he had it down to a fine art . |
| 25 | But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro . |
| 26 | If you think you may be harbouring a priceless heirloom in your attic , why not satisfy your curiosity and take it along to a special Valuation Evening at Claydon House , Buckinghamshire , on 28 September ? |
| 27 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 28 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 29 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 30 | Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses . |