Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports rose 6.8 p.c. to a high of $37.8 billion , while imports fell modestly . |
| 2 | Publishing arm profits rose 31 p.c. to £3½m . |
| 3 | By contrast , contract catering profits rose 18 p.c. to £47m . |
| 4 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 5 | Total cash outlays last year rose 11 p.c. to £213 billion , including £19.3 billion in March . |
| 6 | Trading in European shares rose 3 p.c. to £16.4 billion . |
| 7 | Rental income rose 16 p.c. to £11.3m , but the interest bill , after capitalising £860,000 against £5½m , rose as a result of the completion of the group 's remaining developments . |
| 8 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 9 | They want the flightpath moved one mile to the west . |
| 10 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 11 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 12 | Profit before exceptionals rose 39 p.c. to £31m helped by increased profits from North America , where Invesco Funds Group generated record sales and Primco Capital Management made a first-time contribution of $3.2m . |
| 13 | The London-listed shares rose 2.5 kroner to 160.5 kroner . |
| 14 | Pretreatment of the cells with DNJ did not alter the molecular weight of the integrin chains expressed and reduced HT-29 adhesion to laminin and fibronectin only to 68% and 49% respectively . |
| 15 | Also inhibition of the glucosidase I by DNJ significantly reduced HT-29 adhesion to laminin and fibronectin although less effectively than DMJ treatment . |
| 16 | From the main living room , master bedroom , guest bedrooms , dining room , kitchen level , the house jutted and dropped one floor to a ‘ playroom ’ . |
| 17 | Faint dot-matrix notices from ill-understood PCWs signalled one approach to parochial administration , hand-written messages in washed-out green biro about where to find the church building 's keys another . |
| 18 | I lifted one foot to the top of the parapet . |
| 19 | He lifted one hand to her mouth and gently freed her lower lip from between her teeth , soothing it with a stroking , caressing movement of his thumb . |
| 20 | There came one day to the palace a certain Dr Shakar . |
| 21 | Occupancy levels last year fell to about 60 p.c. , from the low 70s in 1990 , and turnover dropped 14 p.c. to £79.2m . |
| 22 | Furthermore , as cogently argued by Finkelstein ( 1980 ) , Goffman , in borrowing the concept of stigma from ancient Greece , where it referred to ‘ a bodily sign … cut or burned into the body and advertising that the bearer was a slave ’ ( Goffman , 1963 , p. 19 ) chooses to interpret its meaning as one of ‘ blemish and ritual pollution ’ rather than of the power and inequality which allowed one person to be a slaveholder and compelled another to be a slave . |
| 23 | As usual I watched and wondered and defended one side to the other . |
| 24 | The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche . |
| 25 | It was probably at his suggestion that the Wordsworths walked one evening to Holford , a small village three miles west from Stowey on the road to Putsham and Kilve . |
| 26 | He raised one hand to the back of his head ; his fingers came away stained with blood . |
| 27 | She tipped one ear to the road , listening to the last of Mitch . |
| 28 | His was the snarling rage , hers the shame as she peed and peed and swore one day to be big enough to beat him , razor his skin , utterly humiliate him , and scorn his cries for mercy . |
| 29 | Then he tied one strand to another . |
| 30 | He tied one end to the stub of a broken aerial housing . |