Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours . |
| 2 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 3 | He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops . |
| 4 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 5 | If nothing catches the eye , walk a few blocks to West 47th street , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues , to browse at the Gotham Book Mart ( ’ Wise men fish here , ’ says the sign ) , which , for 70 years has specialised in literature and arts . |
| 6 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 7 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 8 | China had , of course , supplied the same missiles to Iran . |
| 9 | China had , of course , supplied the same missiles to Iran . |
| 10 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 11 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 12 | Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment : |
| 13 | Can we take it Mr that you would therefore apply the same comments to sector six on this criterion , as you did to the freestanding criterion ? |
| 14 | If only one could apply the same tests to people , she thought , and of course in a way one did ; but as life went on this kind of choice came to be a luxury — one took what came one 's way . |
| 15 | Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person . |
| 16 | Conner Peripherals Inc has reorganised around four market groups — an OEM products group to market disk drives , tape drives , storage management software and storage systems to computer manufacturers , a distribution products group to market the same products to distributors and resellers , a storage systems group , formerly Maynard Electronics , will market bundled hardware and software primarily to corporate end users , and a software products group will market storage management software to personal computer users and network administrators through retail and OEM channels and build on its product development relationships with major operating system companies . |
| 17 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 18 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 19 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 20 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 21 | She put a few questions to Dr Scott . |
| 22 | This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday . |
| 23 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 24 | She seized her jacket and bag , said a few words to Myra and practically ran the short distance to her flat , visions of Dana lying unconscious from a fall filling her mind . |
| 25 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |
| 26 | He can devote a few paragraphs to Brecht but pages to the crippled young would-be philosopher who spends his life in a barrow flicking through Spinoza and Kant with his tongue . |
| 27 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 28 | What , what do you think , do you think you ought to say a few words to Jack ? |
| 29 | ‘ We already have the latter thanks to Sister Meek and Dr. Gillian Baird . ’ |