Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the problem which really preoccupied him , which he kept returning to from one direction after another , and one in which he never seemed to make headway , was how to use the information he had to bring the conflict between Copt and Moslem to an end . |
| 2 | At the end of a dive to 28 metres for 27 minutes total , the tissue loading bar graph had filled to within one segment/division of the caution zone . |
| 3 | By 1980 though , the US contribution had fallen to about one sixth , America 's day of being an oil exporter was long gone and oil dependence on the Middle East had begun . |
| 4 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 5 | The team found that the supply of fresh water for all purposes in Baghdad had fallen to between 5 and 20 litres per person per day compared with 500 litres before the war , and that diarrhoeal diseases among children had quadrupled . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 7 | At Millport , in the summer of 1949 , Barnes and Powell ( 1950 ; quoted by Connell , 1961 ) recorded H. lapillus at 150 m — 2 , although this density had dropped to between 3 and 25 m — 2 by the Dog-whelks : an introduction to the autumn as the barnacles were consumed . |
| 8 | The thick cloud had crept to within fifty metres of where we were hidden . |
| 9 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 10 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 11 | Luckily , my sister had moved to within five minutes walking distance of my office so I had somewhere comfortable to go — which was a great help . |
| 12 | Nick Faldo , who after an outward half of 33 , had closed to within two strokes of the lead , was in with a fine chance but he could not maintain it . |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , ’ he murmured under his breath , glancing at his watch , wondering where the hell Carol had got to at nine-forty in the morning . |
| 14 | Mujaheddin guerrillas had advanced to within 1 km of the town before government forces retaliated from the night of Oct. 3 with round-the-clock air strikes ; hundreds of guerrillas and civilians died as the fighting degenerated into a stalemate . |
| 15 | By mid-June the rebels had advanced to within 50 km of Monrovia ; thousands of civilians fled by road , and many also sought refuge in US installations , including the embassy . |
| 16 | And André was in his element , enjoying the buzzing atmosphere around him the way she had used to at one point in time . |
| 17 | By the time the crowd reached Happy Valley , two miles away , it had swelled to between 500,000 and one million people — 10 to 20 per cent of Hong Kong 's population . |
| 18 | Some of these trades , like boxmaking , would have been learned in factories before marriage and some , like sewing , were occupations women tended to turn to in old age . |