Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 2 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 3 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 4 | According to the Clarkes ' evidence in the Old Bailey court , Atra signed a contract with Virgin in September 1975 , under which Virgin were to directly handle certain Atra recordings . |
| 5 | However according to the Rapoports ' analysis of the dual career family , women remain the domesticated individuals . |
| 6 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 7 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 8 | Travis raced to the Gormans ' cottage and with great difficulty told the distressed couple what had happened . |
| 9 | STEVE BALE talked to the Scarlets ' rebel with a cause . |
| 10 | The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 11 | I became more and more used to the Houys ' ideas and way of life . |
| 12 | I was not condemned to the Guérignys ' life sentence . |
| 13 | ‘ We can ring from there — be easier really , ’ suggested Morse , pointing to the Kemps ' property . |
| 14 | On Boxing Day , she returned to the Hamiltons ' , to learn from Mrs Porter that Bill was at the hospital , and that Dr Greene planned to discharge Faye that afternoon . |
| 15 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 16 | Doing up an 18th-century house is small beer compared to the Stewarts ' next project . |
| 17 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 18 | Even the encouragement given to the Ceauşescus ' globe-trotting by Robert Mugabe was pretty much a case of like endorsing like . |
| 19 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 20 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 21 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 22 | Detectives investigating the case went to the Pryse-Jones ' former home in Haverhill . |
| 23 | Mrs Edwards went to the Cheshires ' base in Germany last month to receive her son 's United Nations service medal . |
| 24 | He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops ' house . |
| 25 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 26 | The man called Pratt who 'd come to the Dasses ' house on a motor-cycle did his imitations of dogs . |
| 27 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |