Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 2 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 3 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
| 4 | They had three sons : one became clerk to the Goldsmiths ’ Company , one an entomologist , and the third was killed in the war of 1914–18 . |
| 5 | Special designs , trial runs and samples were all part of winning the order as the production unit and design studio lent support to the sales effort . |
| 6 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 7 | Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby . |
| 8 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 9 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the fact that he sought re-election to the legislature was widely interpreted as indicative of a desire to use his influence — he was thought to have maintained an overall majority in the new House — to secure the presidency for his friend and colleague , Vice-President Teatao Teannaki , the elected member for Abiang . |
| 11 | Henry became successor to the Burghley estate and in return the ninth Earl settled his younger brother 's debts . |
| 12 | A man who led Spurs to the League and Cup double , some thirty or so years ago . |
| 13 | The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion . |
| 14 | In the case of Wachtel v IRC ( 1970 ) 46 TC 543 , the settlor deposited money with a bank interest-free and the bank lent money to the trust at 1 per cent . |
| 15 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 16 | Government forces then laid seige to the building and , after a standoff of several hours , there was a four-hour gun-battle which culminated in the storming of the hotel . |
| 17 | The refusal of foreign-owned oil companies operating in Chile to handle Soviet crude lent weight to the arguments of nationalists who wanted to accept the Soviet offer , which was heatedly debated in the Chilean Congress for two years before the incoming elected conservative government of Alessandri felt strong enough to reject it . |
| 18 | Within the Conservative Party the Gulf crisis lent weight to the argument that a leadership challenge would be inappropriate . |
| 19 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 20 | It was at this time that the wellknown property mover and solicitor Noel Smyth appointed nominees to the board of Chestvale . |
| 21 | A plaintiff or other person made defendant to a counterclaim may pay money into court as if he were a defendant ( Ord 11 , r 8 ) . |
| 22 | Dissent flared into civil war after a Sunday Telegraph Gallup poll revealed opposition to the Maastricht Treaty was at an all-time high among Tory backbench MPs . |
| 23 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 24 | As she closed the car door gently , she whispered thanks to the wind for smothering any noise . |
| 25 | The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century . |
| 26 | Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists . |
| 27 | In his absence the regents made concessions to the magnates in return for grants of taxes in aid of the war with Scotland . |
| 28 | To obtain this majority in the Bundesrat , the government made concessions to the Länder concerning additional subsidies for Land and local government funds . |
| 29 | This latest outbreak of sectarian fighting , momentarily stilled by a government-mediated ceasefire on July 21 , came as Sunni groups voiced opposition to the government 's apparently conciliatory approach to the Shias ( who accounted for about 20 per cent of the country 's population ) . |
| 30 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |