Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line screamed out as Trent beat to windward off the reef . |
| 2 | It 's believed that Sandra moved to either Newark or Leicester . |
| 3 | She moved to Tonight , The Nine O'Clock News and The Six O'Clock News before leaving current affairs to stand in for Wogan . |
| 4 | He soon moved to much larger premises in Park Lane , and later to even larger offices at Piccadilly Circus in 1947 . |
| 5 | Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished . |
| 6 | Mr Friere , who used to call his gallery fiction/non-fiction , decided to change its name when the gallery recently moved to more spacious quarters on Prince St. |
| 7 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 8 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 9 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 10 | In the wake of the dismissal last week USL promised to vigorously pursue the case to protect its rights , convinced its claims have merit . |
| 11 | He promised to forward my mail and wished me luck . |
| 12 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 13 | He promised to much . |
| 14 | In his inaugural speech on 28 July , President Fujimori promised to fully respect human rights : ‘ The terrorist violence our fledgling democracy currently faces can not justify the occasional or systematic violation of human rights . ’ |
| 15 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 16 | The number of reported cases rose to over 100 last year , compared with 35 in 1991 . |
| 17 | The recession was much deeper than forecast , so that social security payments expanded as unemployment rose to over three million . |
| 18 | Thereafter prices evened out around the dollars 18 level ( the " minimum " reference price for OPEC oil confirmed in November 1989-see p. 37053 ) , but in December the world market was again temporarily affected ( this time by exceptionally cold weather in North America and by the US military operation in Panama-see pp. 37112-13 ) and in the latter part of that month the Brent crude price rose to over dollars 20 . |
| 19 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 20 | Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today . |
| 21 | While its staff of 17 in 1962 rose to nearly 500 by 1965 , it was primarily an organization that defined French space policy objectives and priorities and co-ordinated relations between public and private sector interests in the nascent space industry . |
| 22 | As freedmen and freedwomen rose to previously unimaginable positions of political power and wealth , some portraits were made which likened their subjects to deities . |
| 23 | In Catholic working-class areas like Newry , Londonderry 's Bogside , and parts of West Belfast , it rose to even 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 24 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 25 | There were 448 players registered with the Football League in 1891 but this figure rose to around 5,000 by the Edwardian period . |
| 26 | As a result , the proportion of revenues originating from outside the UK rose to around 27% , with the Far East and US performing particularly well . |
| 27 | While expenditure was reduced after this , by the 1960s , with the entry of the United States into the Vietnam conflict , it rose to around 10 per cent of GDP once more . |
| 28 | The quickening pace of commerce increased the urban population : a mere 3 per cent of the population in 1700 , it rose to about 8 per cent in 1800 and reached around 11 per cent by the 1850s . |
| 29 | Overall , representation increased the chances of success to about one in three , but if representation by a friend or relative is excluded , then the success rate for those with ‘ expert ’ representation rose to about two in five cases . |
| 30 | Annual money wage increases rose to about twice those of the mid-fifties , and product wages ( real wages in terms of the product ) accelerated as well . |