Example sentences of "some [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 2 | Additionally if in relation to the gift the donee seeks to get some benefit over to the donor the transaction may be caught by the associated operations provisions contained in FA 1986 , Sched 20 , para 6(1) ( c ) . |
| 3 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 4 | Almost half of Edward 's sede vacante presentations were retrospective , some dating back to his grandfather 's reign , and most being based on fictitious entitlement ; considerable temptations were open to unscrupulous candidates , armed with dubious history , to challenge the rights of sitting tenants . |
| 5 | Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century . |
| 6 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 7 | Historic bells including some dating back to Henry VIII 's reign are to go on show at the Ryedale Folk Museum , Hutton-le-Hole near Kirkbymoorside from tomorrow . |
| 8 | They include some dating back to Emperor Septimius Severus who once ruled York . |
| 9 | As for the pigs themselves , some played up to all the publicity , others were content to wallow in their victory ; settling for a quiet life . |
| 10 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 11 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 12 | The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s . |
| 13 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 14 | But I was dead sure that the last item would take some getting round to . |
| 15 | Each interview — some last up to 11 hours — is a recorded autobiography . |
| 16 | There are dresses for £2.99 , but some go up to £20 , but would probably have been two or three times that when new . |
| 17 | Some go on to postgraduate courses aimed at giving their degree a particular vocational emphasis , but a degree in Italian can lead to a very wide variety of careers . |
| 18 | New French findings hint that the tetrapods probably hopped like kangaroos , as their tracks show left and right hind footprints in parallel , rather than alternating , some reaching up to two-metre intervals . |
| 19 | There are some gone back to work they have n't got all that heavy obligations but there are lads on the line which have got very heavy complications and children and they have stuck it out you know . |
| 20 | Average price for a home is £3 million but some fetch up to three times more . |
| 21 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 22 | The distances doctors cover are a great waste of time … some spend up to four hours a day walking from department to department . |