Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August . |
| 2 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 3 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |
| 4 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 5 | The move was seen to be a response to the average daily INRO market price indicator being below the " may buy " levels in the six months leading up to the review . |
| 6 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 7 | Youth-v-experience or perhaps it 's time a woman won in Stockton South The three candidates squaring up to each other in the battle for Stockton South are quick to use the differences that lie between them as political ammunition . |
| 8 | When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time . |
| 9 | When the system was tested during the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly on each occasion . |
| 10 | ‘ A balance … ’ he said softly , then laughed and climbed up out of his seat , making his way down the short gangway , the three servants standing off to one side of him as he passed , their heads bowed low . |
| 11 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 12 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 13 | The cut for the weekend was made at 156 , with 41 players going through to the final two rounds . |
| 14 | Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits . |
| 15 | Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border . |
| 16 | Heathrow Airport expected to handle a total of 600,000 passengers in the five days leading up to Christmas Day — a six per cent increase on last year . |
| 17 | DESPITE only five villagers turning up to last week 's meeting , Kingsley residents are continuing to look into the possibility of a local neighbourhood help scheme . |
| 18 | ‘ We have 13 students coming up to the end of the general SVQs in business administration at level III . |
| 19 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 20 | I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that . |
| 21 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 22 | I am especially pleased to welcome JCI back as a shareholder , a position they held from 1918 until 1979 , cementing the close relationship between our two companies dating back to the last century . |
| 23 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 24 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 25 | Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff . |
| 26 | We spent two days travelling back to Royston with a guide who was as tired of us as we were sick of him . |
| 27 | A series of beats are held , usually with the first four boards going through to the next round , culminating in a final . |
| 28 | Mr Chairman , if this for negotiators of these and if you look at th the papers of the budget this year , er because of conservative policies do n't improve , you have n't actually inherited about ten million pounds coming in to your budget during the year . |
| 29 | So that the pageant should not be seen by any outsider and news spread of where the Miracle-Worker had gone to earth , they rolled the various carts into two barns facing on to the street . |
| 30 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |