Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today . |
| 2 | Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m . |
| 3 | When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it . |
| 4 | By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales . |
| 5 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 6 | At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque . |
| 7 | Well er he 's , she 's got two kids , little ones and has moved in to a house du n no whether it 's with her or not but he 's very touchy about the subject when anybody asks cos Johnny said oh I 'm sorry to hear about you and he g he go goes oh I suppose you know it all do you ? |
| 8 | THE fuss about BSE — mad cow disease — has died down to a whimper . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom has spoken bilaterally to a number of countries about the non-proliferation treaty . |
| 10 | It 's estimated the case trial has cost up to a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | Conservation , which many designers claim dogs modern architecture , has led here to a situation where both exist quite happily side by side . |
| 12 | Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country . |
| 13 | Lastly , windblown sand has accumulated up to a height of 150 metres , where rock-cored hills with gentle slopes lie close to beach or eroding dune areas which furnish a steady supply of sand . |
| 14 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 15 | I 'd got through to a girl I said extension two three six and then oh and the feller said er |
| 16 | If someone gets stung close to a bee 's nest , they are likely to find themselves quickly surrounded . |
| 17 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 18 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 19 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 20 | Ah was affronted fur her , imagine gettin' stuck ‘ n ’ huvin' to get rolled on to a stretcher , the perr o' them , and kerted oot covered up wi' his poplin shortie . |
| 21 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 22 | State grain reserves were opened in Anhui and Jiangsu while medical teams fought water-borne diseases such as dysentery and cholera , which were reported to have affected up to a quarter of the flood victims . |
| 23 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 24 | We 'd like to release Family as a joint effort with them , if we do n't get signed up to a record company first ! ’ |
| 25 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 26 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 27 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 28 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 29 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 30 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |