Example sentences of "to it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined .
2 Now he looked up , and Lachlan was hard put to it to meet the bitter glare .
3 The way to it enters the obvious breach between Beinn Eighe and Liathach , reached from the top of the pass , a rough path climbing alongside the descending stream and then curving around the side of Sail Mhor , an outlier of Beinn Eighe , to the lip of the corrie and a sudden revelation of mural precipices on a grand scale .
4 One diplomat observed : ‘ The national colloquium and the discussions leading up to it gave the lower ranking researcher better status , and a feeling of more involvement in his work . ’
5 Next to it stands the former bailiff 's castle which is now a historical museum housing several treasures , one of which has a link with America .
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