Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Milanese turned to reconstruction with a will , deciding that everything that could be returned to an ‘ as before ’ condition should be .
2 The Irish lands of the Joinville descended to Geoffroi 's fifth son , Simon , who served as a ‘ strenuous ’ knight for Edward Il in Scotland ( 1315–22 ) and Aquitaine ( 1324–5 ) and was still being summoned to fight the Scots in May 1335 .
3 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 .
4 The conversion was at first a family secret ; when it leaked out to the neighbours the Murphys fled to Dublin , where William worked in his teens in a boot shop .
5 The DoE wrote to Water Authorities ‘ seeking from them assessments of the zones that would need to be designated ’ if the Directive came into being .
6 The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name .
7 Stephen owed his election as ban in 1322 to the Bogomils , but after he had been persuaded by the Hungarian king to submit to Rome , the Bogomils looked to Tsar Dušan of Serbia for help .
8 From Beijing , the Broughtons went to Xi'an , to see the famous terracotta army , thousands of lifesize statues of the emperor 's bodyguard , each modelled on an individual soldier from the general to the lowliest private .
9 In 1983 production increased from 58.3 MTOE ( 1982 ) to 61.5 MTOE and the Netherlands proposed to Britain that Dutch gas could replace Norwegian should the two parties be unable to reach an agreement on Sleipner as subsequently proved to be the case .
10 His Interior portfolio was taken over by Rudolf Seiters , whose post as Head of the Chancellery went to Friedrich Böhl .
11 The Staffel returned to Sicily late on 8th .
12 The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television .
13 Books , and there are so many of them , on Cicero 's political thought might at least note the desperate vagueness of his ideas on the provincials , which in the case of the Gauls amounted to contempt .
14 Out of 700 cases that the PPL took to court last year , it is thought that as many as 100 could have been brought against hotels or restaurants .
15 The two best fish of the week from the Drowes fell to Denis Brennan of Cookstown and Billy Ray of Belfast , both of whom caught salmon of 12 lbs on shrimp .
16 In 1883 the Richardsons moved to Putney .
17 THE CLASH went to New York and got snapped with ROBERT DE NIRO ; THE POGUES went to LA and got MICKEY ROURKE ; the Poppies , in their own inimitable manner , went to Australia and got that JOE MANGEL git out of Neighbours !
18 By good fortune , not to mention cool-headed driving , neither the deer nor the Mercedes came to grief .
19 On this marriage the Dalisons moved to West Peckham , although retaining all their property here at Halling .
20 Much of the Liberal pacifist opinion which had held aloof from the UDC rallied to Landsdowne , though hopes of securing support from other major political figures for a direct challenge to Lloyd George were disappointed .
21 The Commune indicated to Marx that it was possible to have all public servants ‘ elected , responsible and revocable ’ and paid working men 's wages .
22 We are interested in receiving a report of what took place when the Leader of the Oppositon went to Barrow and had a chat with the work force .
23 Similarly , the hero of The Foreman Went To France ( 1941 , Somewhere in France in US ) has to overcome managerial indifference and bureaucratic obstruction to cross the Channel and recover machines that might otherwise fall into the hands of the Germans .
24 A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends .
25 It wants to give tourism back to the GLC , yet the only contribution that the GLC made to tourism was to destabilise and almost destroy the London tourist board .
26 On 29 May 1985 Petty Officer Gerald Andries of the DGSE flew to London and bought a French-made Zodiac inflatable dinghy and outboard motor for £1,400 from the Barnet Marine Center in North London , paying in cash .
27 Meanwhile , the Solaris-for-Sparc promised to OEMs reportedly includes SVR4 , ONC+ , OpenWindows 3.0 with Tool Talk , the desktop metaphor and Open Look interface and multi-processor support that the OEMs will have to fine-tune to their machines .
28 But when the Dalai came to Britain in 1991 , the Chinese spat with fury about the visit .
29 While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year .
30 The McDermotts returned to Belfast this week to pray by their son 's grave and lay flowers .
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