Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every February , like thousands of others artists up and down the country , I have to decide which of my paintings to submit to the Royal Academy ; you are allowed to send in a maximum of three works for which you pay a fee of £9 each . |
| 2 | I wanted my children to go to the best school that I could find . |
| 3 | The DUP has added Bill Irwin to its ranks to add to the four sitting councillors . |
| 4 | For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior . |
| 5 | Such a bias may be reinforced by the fact that those who are deaf in the 45–50 age range are less likely than their fellows to survive to the following age group ( because the deafness is related to some general malady or because hearing deficiency increases their risk of fatal accident ) . |
| 6 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 7 | On 24 September , in the Daily Mirror , ‘ Cassandra ’ urged his readers to listen to the comic capers of the Nazi propagandist . |
| 8 | From time to time he broke off his labours to return to the great court to look out for Tutilo returning . |
| 9 | While this exchange was going on , Rodrigo had allowed certain of his men to desert to the other side , taking with them the story that El Cid was about to escape by night through one of the passes . |
| 10 | With the candle-flame held close to the page , listening for the measured tread of the warder on the stone-flagged corridor outside , he would allow his thoughts to escape to the sun-drenched wilderness of Coral Island ; to the wind-swept moors of Wuthering Heights . |
| 11 | The rest of the pistols he bundled into a towel and gave to one of his daughters to carry to the banqueting hall . |
| 12 | The climax of our dealing activities , finally acknowledging our efforts to bring to the fore German art and culture in this country , was the acquisition of our unusual vista of the ‘ Friedrichsgracht in Berlin ’ by Eduard von Gärtner , only the second painting after Caspar David Friedrich 's ‘ Winter Landscape with Church ’ by a German nineteenth-century artist to grace the walls of the National Gallery . |