Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian report on the Swindon game praises Strachan at length and goes on to critically assess Rocky in the light of his lack of match fitness and his attitude . |
| 2 | In Los Angeles workers joke that the rush hour begins at 5.30am and goes on to 8.30pm . |
| 3 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 4 | A CLEVELAND school band conducted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock hopes to go on to more national acclaim . |
| 5 | for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him |
| 6 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 7 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 8 | Thereafter , the weight loss slows down to approximately 1–2lb per week , depending upon the type of diet . |
| 9 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 10 | But usually I think ours have been it 's more it goes down to , not actual being but a an actual reading , it goes down to potentially what it 's capable . |
| 11 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 12 | Through all the Bird generations it passed down to today . |
| 13 | It is already obvious that the columns vary according to the point size , you can get away quite happily with two columns across an A4 in 12 point , three would be better in 10 point and to get four you 'll need to go down to perhaps 8 point . |
| 14 | I mean ideally you would n't want to have to , to go down to less than three thousand pounds a year |
| 15 | I do n't know what size gun it was , you know , or any details but that 's what we found out what the bang was and it , it moved on to somewhere else , they did n't fire it again . |
| 16 | From Figuration Libre painters , each portrayed in his own iconographical universe , he moved on to more natural , less intrusive backgrounds in his silkscreen-on-metal prints of Tunisian children or Berliners celebrating the fall of the Wall . |
| 17 | Having dealt with a less than happy situation Mr Vernon moved on to more pleasant matters , reminding the meeting of the Headquarters and Depot Open Days in August and of the warm reception shown to the public by those who man the lifeboat stations . |
| 18 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 19 | . What I want to come on to now is just to talk about nonlinearity , and still with reference to demand elasticities . |
| 20 | The chief motive which would naturally encourage Christian thinkers to look for such an alternative is that Lessing 's horizon necessarily scales down to merely relative and passing significance the events on which Christian faith itself depends — the history recorded and interpreted in the Bible , and in particular that of Jesus himself . |
| 21 | As a rule of thumb , I suggest that would mean the penultimate week 's volume should be around two-thirds of its normal load , while the last week drops down to around one-third . |
| 22 | That new portable interpreter for Ken Iverson 's J notation of his APL language ( CI No 2,138 ) is yet another piece of bad news for IBM Corp 's mainframe business , because all the so-called rocket scientists at firms like Morgan Stanley & Co — for whom J developer Roger Hui works — that write the fiendishly clever software that is used in program trading of shares on Wall Street , use the APL language — on IBM mainframes , and J promises to enable the software to moved down to much cheaper RISC-based boxes . |
| 23 | Eventually , though not yet for many years , when Deep Level came up under here ore was dropped down to there and trammed out all the way to the Bonsor Mill ; Paddy End Mill was then shutdown . |
| 24 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 25 | Costs need to come down to about £1.13 before solar power makes an impact on the energy market . |
| 26 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 27 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 28 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 29 | No party has yet owned up to actually revealing the identity of five-year-old Jennifer Bennett of Faversham , Kent , who waited 11 months for an operation for glue ear . |
| 30 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |