Example sentences of "it had [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 2 | By last year it had risen to one pound sixty nine . |
| 3 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
| 4 | In 1978 it had risen to 31 months , from which it has now declined a little , to 27 months in 1986 ( see Werner 1988 ) . |
| 5 | But in the madrigal it had led to heightened tone-painting of individual words and phrases , a practice which Zarlino 's own pupil , the Florentine lutenist and singer Vincenzo Galilei ( c. 1520–1591 ) , father of the astronomer , ridiculed in his Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna ( Venice , 1581 ) . |
| 6 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 7 | In 1950 it had dropped to 50 cents per million units . |
| 8 | It had reduced to 18 mph on impact and the driver had reacted very quickly . |
| 9 | It had happened to other freelancers , she knew . |