Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I reduced it to 14 and regular hours .
2 Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility .
3 On 2 March , she improved it to 7.68 and , two days later , broke it twice in a day in Seville — 7.66 and 7.63 .
4 By 1961 it was fading : lack of resources kept it to four or six pages when other broadsheets were three or four times as big .
5 So I made it to 100 and we won the game shortly after . ’
6 Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares .
7 He extended it to 17-10 and 19-13 before finishing Weir off with a double .
8 They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states .
9 In the Nicaraguan setting all motivations became elemental , and their very primitiveness — together with their drama — perhaps commended them to dramatic and imperfectly democratic Americans .
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