Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 2 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 3 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 4 | Don Shears ( Avon ) moved up to the 55 age group where , seeded number 4 following his unbeaten run in the Dubler Cup , he reached the semi-final to give the ultimate runner-up , Gordon Davis ( USA ) a tough fight after battling through three exhausting rounds . |
| 5 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 6 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 7 | This in turn referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , commonly known as the Brundtland Commission after its chair , the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 8 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 9 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 10 | Downes almost snarled his reluctant ‘ Yes ’ ; and listened , mouth agape with incredulity , as Morse beckoned over to the two detective-constables from the second police car . |
| 11 | She glanced over to the two male nursing orderlies testing an oxygen tent in the far corner . |
| 12 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
| 13 | Date , time , Sao 2 , plethysmographic waveforms , skin po 2 , breathing movements , and electrocardiograms were continuously monitored and recorded on to a 128 kB digital memory card ( 86×54×3 mm ) , which was continually updated with the last 20–30 minutes of data . |
| 14 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 15 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 16 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |
| 17 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 18 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 19 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 20 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 21 | She counted up to a hundred as she skipped . |
| 22 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 23 | She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head . |
| 24 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 25 | In Manchester , the gangs were known as ‘ Scuttlers ’ — a word which went back to the 1880s — and their gang fights and rowdyism as ‘ Scuttling ’ or ‘ Scuttles ’ . |
| 26 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 27 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 28 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 29 | Real business remained very slack and , with Wall Street heading south in the afternoon , the Footsie slipped in to a 2404.2 point close , up 3.3 . |
| 30 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |