Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 2 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 3 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I had been advised to mark everything up by 20 per cent , ’ Alistair Sampson said , ‘ because the clients ’ decorators would come round afterwards asking for a cut . |
| 5 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 6 | This would be a promise to deliver anything up to ten songs in a year . |
| 7 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |