Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 2 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 3 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 4 | So I 'll have to change yours to forty three , I put forty two . |
| 5 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 6 | Do you want to change it to fifteen hundred thousand ? |
| 7 | I really want to get , I er , I I want you to , I did n't really want to make it to four , I did n't want to get it too formalized because I think that sometimes gets in the way of real information . |
| 8 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 9 | My Lords , to those who er who have objected to erm a body of large numbers o o need to reduce it to sixteen er I would say that those on the er my Noble Friends on the front bench would do very well to give their attention to the possibility of reducing the number of the cabinet er to sixteen er er er I w er forebear from making er detailed suggestions |
| 10 | We all had a solution and we all wanted to present it to one man alone " said Kambiz Atabai |
| 11 | And then if we get agreement on a salary increase then we only have to pay it to one person |
| 12 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 13 | We then see the goal , hopeful chip into the box , Rush attempts to take it to one side on the half volley with Fairclough bearing down , misses it completely , flies up and hits him in the shoulder . |