Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 2 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 3 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 4 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 5 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 6 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 7 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 8 | musicians can only count up to four . |
| 9 | All you have to do is to be brave enough to stand up to those putting pressure on you or taking advantage of your desire to keep everyone happy . |
| 10 | Okay that 's , you 'd better hang on to that one and I 'll |
| 11 | These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) . |
| 12 | We can only collect up to 2 sacks each week from your house . |
| 13 | But when you first see it , it can be rather frightening , so hold on to small children 's hands . |
| 14 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 15 | Erm so going back to this one , E to the minus nought point three . |
| 16 | Okay erm so going back to these we 've got day s say stay play pray . |
| 17 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 18 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 19 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 20 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 21 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |
| 22 | Eg White is down at Man City , Rocky at leeds ) You may only spend up to 20 Million quid . |
| 23 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 24 | So hang on to those shares . |
| 25 | If the sensitivity of our pigments suddenly shifted over to that of the bee 's , the sky would still be reassuringly blue with fluffy white clouds , while nearly everything else would take on a bizarre hue . |
| 26 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 27 | So you know it , it , it 's just , they will actually , the interesting bit is that they 'll only move back to that equilibrium point as you fall down towards them . |
| 28 | With the future of a new state lying uncharted before them , discussion of politics naturally reached down to basic principles , and there was considerable pressure to establish the new states and their federation as democracies , or as near that as was practically possible , democracy still at this time meaning direct popular participation in government . |
| 29 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 30 | They can all submit up to five choices , which means that there will be something like eight hundred thousand application forms floating through the system . |