Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Doctor Who 's second series got shortened to thirty-nine weeks , ending with ‘ The Time Meddler ’ instead . |
| 2 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 3 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 4 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 5 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 6 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 7 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 8 | Nobody really minded — Mum exchanged 2 recipes and my silly wee sister got invited to 3 parties . |
| 9 | Although the budget for 1992 was still in preparation , the Economy Ministry had already announced public-sector salary increases for 1992 of 6 per cent ( with inflation anticipated to fall to 10-12 per cent ) . |
| 10 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |
| 11 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 12 | Between 1976 and 1977 the number of working days lost trebled to 10 million ( compared to 759,000 last year ) . |
| 13 | We were soon into French airspace and decided to climb to 6000 feet . |
| 14 | ‘ We then looked at individuals and then started talking to four or five venture capital companies as well as merchant banks . |
| 15 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 16 | Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items . |
| 17 | Sister disappeared to talk to one of her staff nurses . |
| 18 | I was n't really looking at the faces , as such , and I immediately felt drawn to one of the men . |
| 19 | It lay tilted to one side , its body-work rusting into the ground . |
| 20 | so erm , he went to speak to one of the Director 's secretary , to go and buy all the cups , I had to provide the sugar |
| 21 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 22 | The EC summit in Dublin in June 1990 had sanctioned the appointment of an EC representative to the occupied territories to oversee the disbursement of direct aid from the EC to the Palestinians , expected to double to 12,000,000 European currency units ( approximately US$15,000,000 ) per year by 1992 . |
| 23 | Planned increases , with production expected to double to seven million cubic metres of timber by 2010 , could make the loss much bigger . |
| 24 | A few British officials , however , in whom northern habits died hard , preferred to go to one of the clubs and have a drink and lunch there . |
| 25 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 26 | The so-serious Bambi did admit to one bit of frivolity to celebrate her freedom . |
| 27 | Nationally the war did lead to one innovation when the government created an imaginative attempt to cope with teacher shortage in the Emergency Training Service , which trained teachers without academic qualifications after national service . |
| 28 | We can not imagine it , yet it is possible , and if such a change did come to one of us , there would be pain for both and merely afterwards friendship … |
| 29 | For each of them we aimed to speak to one of their children and if possible one of their grandchildren too , in order to have more than one perspective from inside each family . |
| 30 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |