Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the back , the defence went to work and Paul Reece performed his tricks again to keep Oxford in command . |
| 2 | The Milanese turned to reconstruction with a will , deciding that everything that could be returned to an ‘ as before ’ condition should be . |
| 3 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 4 | As the afternoon turned to dusk , we found the perfect campsite , some flat grassland sheltered by a belt of fir trees , with a river nearby . |
| 5 | Alison says the National Health Service is woefully underfunded and thinks many people would be prepared to pay extra income tax if the money went to health care . |
| 6 | One civil servant , at least , managed to escape the net when Clive Ponting , a Ministry of Defence official who had leaked documents about apparent ministerial lies on the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War , was acquitted by a jury when the case came to court . |
| 7 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 8 | The mesne process allowed a creditor to have his debtor arrested and detained before the case came to court and judgement was made on it . |
| 9 | When the case came to court , he did n't attend , leaving his lawyers to make a dramatic plea to the jury . |
| 10 | The case came to court 21 months later . |
| 11 | When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort . |
| 12 | When the case came to court , Pauline Baldwin was granted a decree nisi because of her husband 's admitted adultery , but the judge found no evidence proved against Gabrielle . |
| 13 | By the time the case came to court , General Amin was neither available as a witness nor regarded as a person worthy of belief . |
| 14 | Because before the case came to court , key witness Alan Chalky White was found murdered in the Cotswold Water Park . |
| 15 | The case came to hinge on the legitimacy of Mabel because of William 's first contracted marriage and so to be a matter for the church courts . |
| 16 | There was no reason why , once they had taken her statement , she should n't go home to Norway until the case came to trial . |
| 17 | She died before the case came to trial but a written statement signed by her on 16 December 1985 was received into evidence under the Civil Evidence Act 1968 . |
| 18 | The case came to light at Liverpool magistrates ' court when Shaw Bakery was prosecuted for a lapse in food hygiene standards . |
| 19 | The case went to court in September and resumes on 2 December . |
| 20 | Solicitor Alistair Babbington decided she was mature enough to decide and the case went to court . |
| 21 | Writers can excoriate poor persons secure in the knowledge that , unless a trade union or well-wisher finances the action , it is unlikely to be pursued : even a journalist as senior as Adam Raphael has quailed when told that the legal cost of suing another newspaper to vindicate his reputation could be as high as £250,000 if the case went to trial . |
| 22 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 23 | When the PS returned to power in mid-1988 she became European Affairs Minister-Delegate but resigned in October 1990 [ see p. 37784 ] , declaring France to be " in danger of being undermined by a lack of industrial motivation " . |
| 24 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 25 | But on Thursday afternoon ( when The Economist went to press ) the signals were dismal . |
| 26 | As The Economist went to press , the terms of the realignment were being discussed in Brussels . |
| 27 | As The Economist went to press , it was not clear exactly what would be offered to the bondholders . |
| 28 | As The Economist went to press , it was impossible to predict whether Mr Clinton would get the 218 votes he needed . |
| 29 | The contract came to grief and the projects passed briefly through another restoration house , then into the Tallichet storage facility in Chino , California . |
| 30 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |