Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the Labour party intends to increase the burden of council spending met locally to 20 per cent . |
| 2 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 3 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 4 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 5 | I got down to ten |
| 6 | For racial nationalists , all these influences led inexorably to one conclusion . |
| 7 | The juveniles could be brought into a place of safety and passed along to one of the agencies for intensive counselling , but the rest of them — those over eighteen , and who were neither obviously offending nor mentally ill — were free agents . |
| 8 | Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas . |
| 9 | Daisy Miller won her fifth race in a row here and is one of a quartet with five successes — the others are Claxton Greene , Confused Express and Rubie 's Choice — chasing Carl 's Choice , who moved on to eight in the West Kent Open and must be favourite to win The Daily Telegraph Trophy . |
| 10 | The two youngsters shouted gleefully to one another as they raced upstairs . |
| 11 | I moved along to 27 then 28 . |
| 12 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 14 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 15 | The mean baseline fundal pH was 1.75 ( 0.25 ) , and after ingestion of the test meal rose rapidly to 2.75 ( 0.75 ) by 10 minutes . |
| 16 | In ninety two , three it narrowed further to twenty two percent and this year we 're proposing a budget that is only ten point eight percent adverse to the government 's figures . |
| 17 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 18 | At the end of November 1973 , over 16,000 were outstanding , and the average period from receipt to decisions ranged up to sixty-five weeks ( for cases decided by the secretary of state after a local inquiry ) . |
| 19 | Cinzia Miletti was lying across it on her back , bent slightly to one side , fully clothed , her eyes closed . |
| 20 | The hunger strike involved up to 350 students plus thousands of supporters camped in tents in Kiev 's October Revolution Square and on the steps of the parliament building . |
| 21 | Until her retirement in 1982 the huge machine moved up to 140,000 tonnes of mud each year . |
| 22 | She moved slightly to one side and slipped from under Fred 's arm . |
| 23 | The Greeks had built predominantly in only one or two storeys ; the Romans built up to four or even five , and the arched type of construction was more suitable for this type of work . |
| 24 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 25 | Cos if you ever squared up to one of these or anybody in the flats , people 'd just come out of the out of the woodwork . |
| 26 | A survey of accident victims treated at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital found up to one fifth later suffered from mood changes , nightmares , and horrific flashbacks . |
| 27 | Trials in the village of Enstone found up to forty drivers an hour breaking the thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 28 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 29 | He promised diversification away from copper , stocks of which were fast diminishing , but which provided up to 90 per cent of Zambia 's foreign exchange . |
| 30 | Poster expenditure may also have been overestimated because the parties used up to eight different creative treatments over the period instead of just one , which is the standard for a monthlong campaign . |