Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased .
2 But the case never came to court .
3 The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees .
4 The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling .
5 That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power .
6 And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light .
7 But if the lizards ever took to forest or crag life , the fringes would be a preadaptation to leaping and parachuting , and — perhaps — a nudge towards the evolution of gliding , independently of the modern flying lizard draco volans .
8 The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company .
9 Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there .
10 The session also restored to official use the red , blue and orange tricolour flag of the independent Armenian state which existed in 1918-20 .
11 The match really came to life when Smith put the visitors ahead five minutes before the scheduled break .
12 The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment .
13 Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain .
14 Previously , a bondholder could swap his old paper for new bonds with the same face value but , say , different rights and terms , without closing his options if the firm later went to chapter 11 .
15 The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family .
16 The report then went to Finance Committee , and I believe it actually referred the whole of the Report to the Party Groups , now .
17 Indeed , concern about the security of the Church was a major reason why High Tories were opposed to the Union with Scotland , which the Whigs eventually brought to fruition in 1707 .
18 The symptoms of hyperventilation can therefore mimic virtually all the symptoms also attributed to anxiety and chronic stress .
19 The NRA also appealed to water users to use washing machines and dishwashers only when fully-loaded and to use the minimum of water for gardening and car washing .
20 If the matter ever came to court , the judge would estimate the amount that you would have earned , in the light of the evidence before him concerning the nature of your job .
21 The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year .
22 The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year .
23 Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales .
24 Not a gentle lot , the bicheiros never hesitated to muscle ( or rub ) out the competition .
25 The ministers also agreed to phase out 85% of production of these chemicals by 1994 .
26 The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time .
27 The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market .
28 The Comyns hardly came to court and though Bruce was close to Alexander , the late King never bothered to consider their claims to his throne .
29 The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children .
30 Many women in the NUWW also belonged to purity groups .
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