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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to a [num] " in BNC.

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1	His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 .
2	Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win .
3	but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic
4	She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb .
5	The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court .
6	On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her .
7	Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years .
8	I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared .
9	Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour .
10	Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them .
11	It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year .
12	Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid !
13	We receive up to a hundred and forty week
14	In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators .
15	With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing .
16	Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year .
17	Plus that they add up to a hundred and eighty .
18	Well that 's so you can work out , erm , if you if you look at any two numbers they add up to a hundred and eighty ,
19	Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
20	Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
21	Cos these are these three add up to a hundred and eighty .
22	These three add up to a hundred and eighty .
23	Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's
24	But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds .
25	It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on .
26	But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each .
27	‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession .
28	Had to go up to a hundred .
29	Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty .
30	Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate .