Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the King turned to Mr Churchill . |
| 2 | Suddenly the crowd started to stone it . |
| 3 | so the boy went to Pam and got a |
| 4 | So the researcher went to Birmingham to meet him and all the time he was talking to the patients , she was thinking , ‘ We 've got to go ! ’ |
| 5 | The greatest benefit was to the local community as a whole : as Listers grew so the area climbed to prosperity from the depression that followed the collapse of the wool-cloth trade . |
| 6 | Gradually the greyness turned to pink . |
| 7 | The catalogue recalls that in 1938 Brame and Lorenceau held an exhibition of Rousseau 's work which contributed to the revival of interest in that artist 's work , and goes on to express the hope that eventually a museum devoted to Barbizon painting may be set up . |
| 8 | As the meeting broke up the conversation turned to Archer 's party . |
| 9 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 10 | There 's also erm , that 's a fish swimming in the sea , there 's also a law related to fishing , as I mentioned before . |
| 11 | Well the question related to Matthew chapter eight , verses twelve |
| 12 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 13 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 14 | Everywhere the city rang to cries of Viva Verdi , a call which did neither the composer nor the opera house any harm at all . |
| 15 | From the outset it was clear that the war would be difficult and its outcome uncertain : indeed the Emperor wrote to Eugénie from Metz saying , ‘ Nothing is ready . |
| 16 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |
| 17 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 18 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 19 | Now , as though solaced by the memory she said , ‘ I have known times when the water went to ice . |
| 20 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 21 | Harris 's internal experience with open systems dates from 1987 when the company committed to X/Open Portability Guide 3 standards and resolved to seek X/Open-compliant vendors and products and the forging of alliances with strategic vendors . |
| 22 | For some , the crime may even pay : thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s , when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived , two of the main executives involved were later promoted ( Vandivier 1972 : 33 ) . |
| 23 | And yet , early yesterday morning , when the squad returned to Luton , the indications were that he would keep changes to a minimum for the friendly against Italy at Wembley next month . |
| 24 | Santomaso 's links with Peggy Guggenheim date back to 1948 when the artist suggested to Rodolfo Pallucchini , General Secretary of the Venice Biennale , that Peggy Guggenheim 's collection should be exhibited in the Greek Pavilion . |
| 25 | Overnight , Corman wrote the start of a screenplay for a piece of nonsense entitled The Terror and hurriedly the cast went to work the next morning to make use of the sets before they were torn down . |