Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 2 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 3 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 4 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 5 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 6 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 7 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 8 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 9 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 10 | When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch . |
| 11 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 12 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 13 | ‘ Dëkuji mnohokrát , ’ she thanked Ivo very much when he escorted her to the door of his master 's home . |