Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 2 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 3 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 4 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 5 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 7 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 8 | I was quite impressed with his pace and he never stopped trying from start to finish . |
| 9 | Rabin signed after receiving a letter from PLO chairman Yasser Arafat who recognised the right of Israel to exist , renounced violence and promised to push through amendments to parts of the PLO charter offensive to Israel . |
| 10 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 11 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 12 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 13 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 14 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear girl , you 'd have thought him very ill-bred if he 'd talked about money to you , and even if he had , you would n't have understood the relevance of what he was saying , any more than he understands how well off we are . |
| 16 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 17 | Marler , still holding the executive case he 'd refused to hand to José , noted the curtains were drawn the full length of the large room . |
| 18 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 19 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 20 | What woman in her right mind would choose what she 'd left in Milan to what he was offering her here , in Rome ? |
| 21 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 22 | Wellington 's face seemed to shudder in reaction to the stench of powder , blood , sweat and crushed grass that wafted from Sharpe 's uniform . |
| 23 | Events in Russia again encouraged switching from marks to dollars , Swiss francs and pounds , and sterling closed three-eighths of a pfennig higher at Dm2.3887 , but a fifth of a cent lower at $1.4345 . |
| 24 | The committee also agreed to press for changes to the rule which limits the level of right-to-buy discounts in the case of newly built houses or those recently modernised . |
| 25 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 26 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |
| 27 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 28 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 29 | But John Redwood , the brash corporate affairs minister tipped to transfer from Trade to Treasury , bringing regulation with him , has been shunted to the new Trade Secretary 's old environment department . |
| 30 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |