Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most brain damaged to the revellers sensed it , and the noise of the place began to die away . |
| 2 | Before the meeting they celebrated the 70th birthday of churchwarden Rosemary Paxton and to mark the occasion and her many years of service to the church presented her with a basket of flowers . |
| 3 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 4 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 5 | Some 75% of bishops who replied to the survey said they would vote in favour of the ordination of women . |
| 6 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 7 | Everyone from Sir Freddie Laker to the CAA warned him it was likely , and Branson had taken what measures he could to prevent it happening . |
| 8 | She was tired enough then to feel a certain caustic amusement that John 's infidelity to the firm touched her so much more on the raw than his infidelity to her . |
| 9 | Her unique closeness to the king gave her the influence of a special potens , to whom others appealed that she " suggest to the king " on their behalf . |
| 10 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 11 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 12 | One strong stab to the heart killed him . |
| 13 | An official leak to the press described him as looking shabby and insignificant . |
| 14 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 15 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | By killing and dividing the animals the parties to the treaty made it clear that the penalty for breaking the agreement was death . |
| 17 | His present-day detractors might well ponder what would have happened to the country had he died . |
| 18 | The sight of the handbag she 'd caught up as he 'd carried her from her flat and which he had tossed on to the bed gave her the glimmering of an idea . |
| 19 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 20 | The sound of the door opening and of voices as people came out on to the deck shocked her so much that she felt physically sick . |
| 21 | In addition to the menus listed you may consume each day : |
| 22 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 23 | According to Heseltine , ‘ virtually every colleague who attended the enlarged meeting and thus came fresh to the arguments supported me , despite the fact that Sir John Cuckney had been invited to put his views to the meeting ’ . |
| 24 | Pitching it up to the batsman made it , quite often , unplayable . |
| 25 | He flew to the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton , but damage to the wing meant he was unable to land , so he flew to open sea , put the plane in a nosedive and ejected . |
| 26 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |
| 27 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 28 | Fiddling with the tuning knob made no difference , and a glance to the left told her what had happened : someone had stolen the aerial . |
| 29 | At school next day , even the girls who had n't been asked to the party wished her a happy birthday . |
| 30 | And there is no doubt that the visit of Cheney and Powell to the Gulf convinced them that to fight a land war at this time would risk over-straining the support among the American people . |