Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ultimately the inability of the access streets to cope with a hugely increased traffic problem which choked the markets to death in the 1960s and led to their demolition . |
| 2 | Common decided to discontinue further experiments because of the trouble and cost and passed the patterns to Thomas Brown and his son , iron-founders of Alnwick , who emigrated to New York State with them in 1824 . |
| 3 | Head of Sellafield , Grahame smith made the presentations to representatives from the groups . |
| 4 | Here ruled the successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) , who had extended Greek culture far beyond Greece to Asia Minor , Cyprus , Egypt and the Middle East . |
| 5 | Who is the seller who sold the goods to Z ? |
| 6 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 7 | At first we asked the women to rate , on a scale one to ten , the effect of relaxation on their level of anxiety . |
| 8 | He then spent another three hours combining the ingredients in his kitchen while his wife Kate dressed the dining table and got the children to bed . |
| 9 | Finlay Calder , the Scottish player who led the Lions to victory in Australia , and is now in his final season at the age of 32 , receives the OBE. |
| 10 | With patient system , her daughters helped the men to food , sliced the big loaf for them , arranged the shining vegetables and heaped bowls of glazed yellow and green earthenware , steaming and fragrant ; and then removed the dishes , stacking them quietly so that the men should not be interrupted in their flow . |
| 11 | Anti-terrorist squad chief Commander David Tucker said it was a miracle there were not far more casualties and dismissed the warnings to LBC Radio and a travel agent as ridiculous . |
| 12 | The Indians used the berries to dye feathers and fabrics , and they were prized for their healing properties ( wounds were bathed with the juice ) . |
| 13 | I grabbed my leather jacket from the chair where it seemed to crawl to no matter where I 'd hung it earlier and found the keys to Armstrong in one pocket and a screwed-up five-pound note in the other . |
| 14 | On four or five occasions in a fortnight in July 1990 , the late-night cleaning crew found the doors to Molinari 's empty office locked from the inside . |
| 15 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 16 | Henry Gunning , a Cambridge don in the eighteenth century , tells of a college fellow who " had Horace at his fingertips " — quite literally , for he committed the Odes to memory by taking the volume to the privy , getting a poem by heart , then tearing out the page for hygienic uses . |
| 17 | Judge David Selwood adjourned the hearings to October 7 for pre-sentence reports . |
| 18 | At this point Mr G. C. Cherry , presiding , adjourned the proceedings to Reading Assizes . |
| 19 | Simultaneously , Task Force Semper Fidelis , composed of US marines and military police , seized the main road across the canal , the Bridge of the Americas , and secured the approaches to Howard Air Force Base , which was always under US military control . |
| 20 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 21 | The others negotiated the puddles to Cobalt 's car . |
| 22 | ‘ Bribery and corruption , ’ Isobel said tartly , as she drew her sables more tightly around her , and they mounted the steps to Edouard 's plane for the flight back to Paris . |
| 23 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 24 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
| 25 | While she handed the goods to mother , who opened the cover and grease paper within to place on a plate , Carl had detected a chippy smell from her breath . |
| 26 | Hawkins produced a pen , signed and handed the papers to Talbot . |
| 27 | She handed the telegrams to Daniel . |
| 28 | He handed the flowers to Kāli , then drove the cows in through the stable door . |
| 29 | Tom handed the reins to Carrie and leaped from the light cart , heading for a nearby cottage . |
| 30 | Pistol in hand , she paused just long enough for the others to catch up , and handed the goggles to Benny , deciding she 'd probably better play it safe and not risk letting any of the inhabitants of 1915 get an idea of how they worked . |