Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 2 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 3 | She thought adoption was not right for D because ‘ adoption involved merely a loss to D — there is no real gain from it to her ’ . |
| 4 | He wrapped his mackintosh carefully round the small sketch-pad and fled down the pathway to the church , arriving in the nick of time , for as he closed the heavy arched door behind him , a slow drizzle of rain swept across the village and surrounding fields . |
| 5 | The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row . |
| 6 | Seven of them , including the Archbishop and Ken , drew up a petition to this effect ; the bishops presented it in person to the King , who exclaimed in anger , ‘ This is a standard of rebellion . ’ |
| 7 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 8 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 9 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 10 | By now Colonel de Barescut , his Chief-of-Staff , had arrived , and with a thick charcoal Pétain traced out the front to be held by his command . |
| 11 | He stared at the envelope again but found there no clue to what had been enacted . |
| 12 | She turned and was relieved to see someone who bore absolutely no resemblance to the man she had described to Roger and Caroline . |
| 13 | The scene she had envisaged before she 'd come of herself apologising nicely , and thanking him , of Leo smiling gently , bore absolutely no relation to the reality . |
| 14 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 16 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 17 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 18 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 19 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 20 | The track switchbacked and twisted down the escarpment to the valley below . |
| 21 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 22 | Impressive results from building materials group Redland coupled with an optimistic forecast about future trading proved something of a damp squib as the stock added just a penny to 490p . |
| 23 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 24 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ He came around a bit to Michael but I do n't believe he ever liked him . |
| 26 | From being a central coordinator determining a common line to be followed by all member firms , they became more a centre to which their members might turn for advice and industrial relations services , particularly those relating to the expanding field of labour law and other consequences of government action such as incomes policy requirements . |
| 27 | In Stirling , Mr Michael Forsyth , the Scottish health and education minister and the foremost disciple of Thatcherism in Scotland , fought off the challenge to his wafer-thin majority of 548 to increase fractionally his majority to 703 . |
| 28 | Another phenomenon which took many of the gentry by surprise and swept some of them along with it , albeit protesting , was an outbreak of Puritan fanaticism in eastern Sussex in 1642 ; it encouraged paradoxically a tendency to religious broadness of mind seen as quite distinct from the narrow views of Archbishop Laud . |
| 29 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 30 | Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony , including Wally Fuentes Morrison , and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet . |