Example sentences of "[verb] to perform [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other work , such as McCabe and Mrs Miller , The Long Goodbye , and Nashville , although warmly received by the critics , failed to perform at the box office . |
| 2 | ‘ You are expected to perform straight away and if you are in a front-running car you are expected to perform like a front-runner immediately . |
| 3 | It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots . |
| 4 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 5 | From 140 applicants only seven were selected to perform at the audition finals at London 's Wigmore Hall . |
| 6 | erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background . |
| 7 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 8 | Back in Britain a year or two later , I was one of a panel collected to perform before a group of young Americans who were paying Richard Demarco , Edinburgh 's most flamboyant cultural entrepreneur , for the privilege of drinking the wisdom of the New Scottish Enlightenment at source . |
| 9 | So , at the very last minute we decided to perform on the lawn outside the main building . |
| 10 | Quite exceptionally , therefore , Baldwin was allowed to perform as a member of the Government and spoke front the front bench from February 1917 onwards . |
| 11 | The local musicians who had been brought in to entertain us were not allowed to perform in the guest-house , so we provided our own ( less professional ) entertainment by singing and reciting poetry . |
| 12 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 13 | Official spokespeople claim the band had not planned to perform on the night , although NME 's source said : ‘ They were definitely going to do the gig , but it was pulled at the first sign of the news breaking . ’ |
| 14 | One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour . |
| 15 | The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed . |
| 16 | The father of the family was not so much concerned about his daughter as about the ‘ Acts of Unity ’ he himself was ordered to perform on the temple 's Altar of Initiation . |