Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two provincial solicitors were the only two who agreed to the research following a random mailing of solicitors in the town . |
| 2 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 3 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 4 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |
| 5 | By his first wife , Sarah Ashe , who died in 1662 , he had a son , who succeeded to the baronetcy , and a daughter . |
| 6 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 7 | Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father 's death . |
| 8 | Keith is a good looking but scruffy 4-year-old who goes to a nursery unit ( attached to a primary school ) five mornings a week . |
| 9 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
| 10 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 11 | Do n't you remember Jules Verne 's story about the professor who goes to the moon and accidentally kills off all its inhabitants because when he goes there he 's got a cold and they 're not used to it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , do you really think the dead sit around counting who goes to the funeral and how many wreaths there are and how much they cost ? ’ his companion carried on . |
| 13 | ‘ Could it be the same person who goes to the house to pick up the post ? ’ |
| 14 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 15 | Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time . |
| 16 | These ideas are particularly associated with Galbraith , who refers to the process whereby consumers are managed in the corporate interest as the ‘ revised sequence ’ . |
| 17 | It was n't always the humble constable who resorted to the fist or stick . |
| 18 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 19 | The Caribou Indians , who lived to the west of Hudson Bay in Canada , were dependent for their food supply on the caribou herds . |
| 20 | Technically , the methods which Dale and his colleagues used had become archaic , as Dale ( who lived to the age of 93 in full intellectual vigour ) well knew . |
| 21 | Glynn has a brother-in-law who belongs to a gun club . |
| 22 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 23 | I think that the hon. Member , who belongs to a party that is supposed to believe in devolution , might occasionally support a practical piece of devolution . |
| 24 | Silly crybaby Sally Anne , who belongs to the circus , is caught by the baddy Professor Coldheart , a Rik Mayall-ish type who deserved all the boos and screams he got . |
| 25 | They had never liked Mr Eyadéma , who belongs to the Kabye people , because he filled the top army posts with his fellow-Kabyes . |
| 26 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 27 | Those who lent to the turnpike trusts were even more localised than those who bought canal stock . |
| 28 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 29 | Within hours of the attack police arrested Kazumi Tajiri , who admitted to the shooting , and who was identified as one of the leaders of an ultra-nationalist right-wing group — Seiki Juku , variously translated as " Spiritual Justice School " , or " Righteous-Minded Academy " . |
| 30 | The last man I had hired came with me and assured me that the girl who rode to the house was Jenna Bryant . |