Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler . |
| 2 | The blast took the oriental in the right shoulder , knocked him off his feet and hurled him clear across the room , where he crashed to a stop with his head and shoulders propped against the far wall . |
| 3 | He has a non-vocational Oxbridge degree but has been thoroughly trained in the operations of the family business and is a shrewd and capable manager with some 32 years of practical experience ( plus 5 years in the army , where he rose to the rank of major ) . |
| 4 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 5 | Timothy O'Riordan , of the University of East Anglia , thinks sustainability might be accepted as the ‘ mediating term ’ between developers and environmentalists , although he leans to the view that it will eventually languish as a ‘ good idea ’ which can not sensibly be put into practice . |
| 6 | He is planning to vote for Paddy Ashdown 's party — although he objected to the Liberal-SDP merger — in Bow and Poplar , the London constituency where he lives . |
| 7 | His indifferent oratory is well known , and he never held office , although he aspired to the Office of Works . |
| 8 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 10 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 11 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 12 | Perhaps Ken 's one failing was that he belonged to a breed of footballer who would later include Charlie George , Rodney Marsh and Emlyn Hughes — big heads . |
| 13 | Nothing is known of Eardwulf 's ancestry except that he was a son of an Eardwulf , but that he belonged to a family with strong Ripon associations is probable . |
| 14 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 15 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that he belonged to the Bozon family of Norfolk , and that he may had studied at Oxford . |
| 17 | In Spain , the Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia ( 1240-c.1291 ) had propounded a mental discipline that he compared to the science of harmony and music . |
| 18 | It was there , in Hanover , about 1716 that he came to the notice of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 19 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 20 | Jean-Marie Chantreux , 28 , smirked as he told a Normandy court that he went to the shipping company to steal . |
| 21 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 22 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 23 | A cocky 12-year-old in an expensive Goretex jacket , Kevin claims that he went to the boy 's home and was told by his father that he had not killed anyone . |
| 24 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 25 | Hasted disputes the King but Jaenbert was Archbishop from 764–793 Dart in his History of Canterbury , states that he signed to a Charter of the same prince of lands at Hallynges , Jaenberthus . |
| 26 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 27 | Second , that he objects to the topicality of the subject that he 's chosen , and finally that he 's not , of course , at home writing prose . |
| 28 | Unless that party , not less than seven days before the hearing , gives notice to the other party that he objects to the use of the affidavit , he is to be taken to have consented to the use of it and the affidavit may be used at the hearing unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(1) ) . |
| 29 | That was an entirely wrong policy , and I think it time that he apologised to the House for having espoused it . |
| 30 | This would be a feat of public agitation that he likens to the Anti-Corn Law League of the 1830s and 1840s , which successfully pressed home the case for free trade ( and caused a split in the Tory Party in the process ) . |