Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She poured wine and water , and the bubbles calypsoed to the rim of her glass . |
| 2 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 3 | On either side was a revolving brush , and the bottles had to be thrust onto these and held firmly in place for about five seconds . |
| 4 | Nationalization was a pie in the sky , and the pie fell to the ground very soon . |
| 5 | This contained a variety of animals — fowl and sixty-three unspecified small birds — but before it could be served the platform supporting it gave way and the pie slipped to the ground . |
| 6 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 7 | Four weeks later at Avus he was back behind the controls , even through he hobbled to his car on crutches and had to be lifted into the cockpit and the pedals had to be modified because he could use only one foot . |
| 8 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 9 | The collector then donated them to three American museums : the Museum of Modern Art had first choice , and took forty-three ; the Art Institute of Chicago then selected thirty-eight ; and the rest went to the Denver Art Museum . |
| 10 | The conflict between the king and the archbishop came to a head in the parliament of April 1341 . |
| 11 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 12 | Sometimes if the mare is held firmly and the foal coaxed to the udder area , she will start to accept the foal . |
| 13 | And the snake spoke to her . |
| 14 | Mr Lockwood did not appear and the daughter went to his home and demanded to know why . |
| 15 | Another fit of coughing and the street-car lurched to a halt suddenly . |
| 16 | When the estimate of D changed to £2500 and the index fell to 2000 , he liquidated his positions in futures and shares . |
| 17 | It was Carrington who was at the disadvantage and the realisation came to him as yet another pleasant shock . |
| 18 | However , close examination of the external stonework , only possible when scaffolding had been erected , revealed the extent of necessary repairs had been underestimated , and the contract had to be extended to June 1991 . |
| 19 | Inclusion of the minor reactivity in the PCNA assay gave a mean proliferation index of 9.1% and the correlation failed to be significant . |
| 20 | Oesophagitis was still present at the second endoscopy in three patients and the treatment had to be continued for a further four to six weeks , when a third endoscopy confirmed complete healing . |
| 21 | In 1983 production increased from 58.3 MTOE ( 1982 ) to 61.5 MTOE and the Netherlands proposed to Britain that Dutch gas could replace Norwegian should the two parties be unable to reach an agreement on Sleipner as subsequently proved to be the case . |
| 22 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 23 | The Commissioner of Inland Revenue confirmed assessments to tax on the profits arising from the taxpayer 's sub-licensing operations and the taxpayer appealed to the Board of Review . |
| 24 | Croggon bought the factory and made many thousands of pounds ' worth of Coade stone for Buckingham Palace , but in the late 1830s trade declined , and the firm came to an end in about 1840 . |
| 25 | Jane , of Bradford , said : ‘ I visit the graves often and the thought came to me that there are people in desperate situations needing help . ’ |
| 26 | And the thought came to me , surprising in its fluency and confidence , fully formed , fully settled : How I hate doctors . |
| 27 | Eventually , as winter set in and the year drew to a close , Praag fell and the hordes of Chaos ran amuck . |
| 28 | A series of conferences was arranged to pay homage to women 's spirit of self-sacrifice , a pamphlet was published on women 's legal rights and the year drew to a close . |
| 29 | The assassins were shot , and Clara wrenched herself away , and the man murmured to her desperately , " Laschemi fare , laschemi fare , " and Clara equally stricken , could not let him , and the credits came up , and the lights came up , and he let her go , and she straightened her coat and pulled her skirt tightly down over her knees , and that was that . |
| 30 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |