Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] visit to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the queen-dowager had informed them , she was but paying a brief visit to the palace , out of respect for her young lord and would be returning to the sanctuary very shortly . |
| 2 | All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 4 | The whole arrangement was on too small a scale for our size , and on one occasion , while making a nocturnal visit to the bushes , Lorne stumbled through the main string , snapped it and brought the curtain up ( or rather down ) on the whole assembled company . |
| 5 | Pakistan , which had a short time before recognized Azerbaijan 's independence , recognized the independence of the Central Asian republics and of the Russian Federation on Dec. 20 , following a three-week visit to the Soviet Union by the Minister of State for the Economy which ended on Dec. 18 . |
| 6 | A treaty of co-operation was signed with the Netherlands government on June 18 , following a three-day visit to The Hague by President Ronald Venetiaan . |