Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 2 | Affleck , who hopes to play for Wales in the World Cup this year , had a steady 67 , five birdies and 13 pars , while Sam Torrance , beginning at the 10th , did well to come in with a 68 . |
| 3 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | Witney Town turned in an excellent performance to come back from a two goal deficit to snatch a point against mid-table Yate . |
| 5 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 6 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 7 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 8 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 9 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 10 | I abandoned the effort to count up to a hundred , sensing that brightly coloured biochemicals were jiggling together on the page . |
| 11 | Whereas ‘ The Smiths ’ struggled , but failed to climb out of a one dimensional musical format , ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ contained a wide variety of styles and experiments coloured by the straightforward production and flavoured by the clearly audible voice of Morrissey . |
| 12 | Morris was at the heart of an amazing North defensive effort to hold on to a 24-17 half-time lead in the face of a strong second-half wind . |
| 13 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 14 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 15 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 16 | Oh right they 've got to add up to a hundred and eighty |
| 17 | I mean , to drive round in a one point six basic Sierra , well it 's pathetic |
| 18 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |