Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 2 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 3 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 4 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 5 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 6 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 7 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 8 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 9 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 10 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 11 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 12 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 13 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 14 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 15 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 16 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 17 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 18 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 19 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 20 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 21 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 22 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 23 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 25 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 26 | think back to a few years back when I was in training about a job and you might still think it now , but I could n't give , put ideas over to somebody on one-to-one training . |
| 27 | But towards the end of our stay in Kuwait , the rules were relaxed , and we were allowed out to a nearby sports stadium to exercise for an hour every day . |
| 28 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 29 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 30 | Oxford currently houses up to a 190 prisoners , many on remand . |