Example sentences of "to [noun sg] in [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 2 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 3 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 4 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
| 5 | I could n't talk to Mama in the same way as I 'm doing now . |
| 6 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 7 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |
| 8 | But the British Fascisti were in earnest , though doomed to extinction in a few years with the creation of Oswald Mosley 's New Party . |
| 9 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 10 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 11 | It is kept up to date in the same way as the full system and is held by many libraries and other advice agencies . |
| 12 | She 's had such a good time and made so many new friends that she 's quite resigned to going back to school in a few days ’ time . ’ |
| 13 | Simon started to go to school in the same year . |
| 14 | Having edited the file , you are returned to LIFESPAN in the same field you were in prior to the edit operation and you can continue ( assuming the file scans without errors ) . |
| 15 | To be really inventive you could knit the bodice to the yoke in cable and stocking stitch strips but have the sleeves and yoke all in one from cuff to cuff in the same pattern , so that the cables run across the yoke sideways . |
| 16 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 17 | A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area . |
| 18 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |