Example sentences of "it [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 33 | If they have n't got it well He said if , I can always cut it down to size and that . |
| 34 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 35 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 36 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 37 | Shamlou put it down to war weariness . |
| 38 | His changed expression showed her that clearly , and she knew too he put it down to greed . |
| 39 | Right , turn it down to number one . |
| 40 | And turn it down to number one and it . |
| 41 | TO be fair , you could put it down to jet lag and a 12-hour flight . |
| 42 | ‘ You must put it down to jet lag and worry over my sister ; I 'm not usually so easily fooled . ’ |
| 43 | Well I 'll show you the , the what do you call it , the back , what the sugar did , and I 'm putting it down to sugar . |
| 44 | To bring it down to earth , she ended with a pet joke phrase of theirs — ‘ tears before bedtime ! ’ |
| 45 | and the idea is so you , you push it down to earth , you want it down to there |
| 46 | ‘ We did it just to book all the bands we knew , ’ recalls Barbara Pendleton at her office in the Festival 's West London HQ . |
| 47 | If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it . |
| 48 | Very small fry may suffer so it best to time your breeding efforts to avoid the holiday period . |
| 49 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |
| 50 | ‘ Responsibility means accepting on assignment , being personally committed to seeing it through to success and , if necessary , being prepared to accept the consequences of failure . |
| 51 | Replace it with a plastic one , but make sure you 'll be able to get it through to loft hatch . |
| 52 | In general , the organization that conceives the idea retains the project , unless it is one which clearly falls outside its remit , and carries it through to completion . |
| 53 | ‘ And … and she grabbed the rope round the mule 's neck and … and led it away to safety , leaving her husband lying in the road . |
| 54 | But ee , if Miss comes in I do n't have to do it , I just hand it over to Miss and bugger off . |
| 55 | She read it twice and passed it over to Roman . |
| 56 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Ferranti action : Ferranti International is planning legal action against some intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts which have brought it close to collapse . |
| 57 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 58 | Flash floods in October 1992 had torn away supporting concrete panels from the base of the dam , bringing it close to collapse and threatening the release of 3.5 million tonnes of water containing harmful levels of heavy metals from nearby mines [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | You knew I 'd move in with you — perhaps you already felt our child kick inside your belly — ; you saw us wave it off to school . |