Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And keep all your things to paint in a separate
2 ‘ After all , there are lots of other things to enjoy in the country . ’
3 I have extraordinary things to report about the child .
4 There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music .
5 Three other things to go into the blast furnace ?
6 One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out .
7 Windows are usually the first things to go in a riot , but medieval glass survived in many of the churches — in St. George 's and St. Martin 's , for example — and Yorkist symbols remained in the windows of St. Mary 's .
8 Yes , and the things to go in the oven .
9 Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) "
10 T : two things to establish for the writer at the beginning of the story one the situation what is the situation * at the beginning of the story * anybody what 's the situation Douglas * have you read the story Douglas S : no sir T : ah that wo n't help then will it who 's read the story what is the situation at the beginning SS : ( laughter ) T : £ is it Michael S : Carl T : what 's the situation at the beginning simple detail situation what where what is the story about at the beginning * have you read it S : no sir T : right who 's read it * Sarah ( Walsh 1987 : 82 )
11 And some , and among them Rhodri Parry , had more dangerous and precious things to hide from the retreating soldiery .
12 The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly .
13 ON the golf course , 1989 was a vintage to declare and may well be the source of good things to come in the publishing world .
14 Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city .
15 These items are simply a taste of the things to come in the following pages .
16 Eighteenth-century products though they were , Beethoven 's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth .
17 Hair is always on show and it 's one of the first things to suffer from the effects of poor diet , pregnancy , the menopause and stress .
18 Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds .
19 there if you want to , have that with a biscuit or something , I said what about this then , erm everybody gon na be taking things to sell at the stalls
20 But compressed ZIP files are n't the easiest of things to handle on a day-to-day basis .
21 Roger Freeman is a most knowledgeable writer on all things to do with the machines , units and campaigns of the USAAF in WWII .
22 There are two aspects to it ; things to do with yourself ( that 's the I 'm OK bit ) and things to do with the other person ( that 's the You 're OK bit ) .
23 FINDING THINGS to do with the children during the long summer holidays can be a real headache for mums and dads .
24 Perhaps you could tell P C some of the things to do with the investigation that were in the programme ,
25 And I think a lot of the things to do with the way we viewed men were to do with women experiencing profound and debilitating sexism within all those respective movements and this is why we had to really re-think things in a radical way and I 'm very proud of that .
26 The problem is not necessarily just the massive increase in numbers of walkers and climbers , but the fact that people are daily dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to do on the hills for fun .
27 A good Home will help its residents to keep as fit as they can and will offer plenty of different things to do during the week .
28 This chapter gives you some ideas for informal things to do in the Home , organised outings and activities which may also have a special therapy value , like reminiscence .
29 And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out .
30 Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen .
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