Example sentences of "sprang to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it sprang to prominence last year when an inventory of its contents revealed that 325 artworks had gone missing . |
| 2 | The 250-acre site next to the river near Stockton sprang to prominence in 1987 when Mrs Margaret Thatcher ‘ walked into the wilderness ’ in front of the nation 's press photographers , and pledged that the site would be transformed . |
| 3 | Scudamore has opted for Chatham instead of stablemate Rushing Wild who first sprang to prominence on Gold Cup day 12 months ago when he demolished the opposition in the Foxhunter Challenge Cup . |
| 4 | He stammered his thanks as the Western sprang to life on the screen and Sweetheart slipped from her seat in a waft of perfume . |
| 5 | BHH Group , the property company , sprang to life after announcing it has received a bid approach . |
| 6 | After a quiet few months , computer systems group Vistec sprang to life , gaining 2 to 17p . |
| 7 | The moment he touched the supposedly somnambulent salmon , the fish sprang to life , flapping wildly out of Father 's grasp . |
| 8 | ‘ As she wrote , the landscape , flowers , children , cats and dogs , sprang to life memorably . ’ |
| 9 | The loft sprang to life . |
| 10 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 11 | He took the crank-handle , inserted it in the hole at the bottom of the radiator and , encouraged by a chorus of ‘ One , two , three , heave ! ’ , swung it energetically until the engine sprang to life . |
| 12 | Springing to life : Indeed , the first real market where the joint strategy sprang to life has been Czechoslovakia , now operating as two separate nations — the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 13 | She would call softly , " Robby , Robby , " Nothing happened at first , But then , A rose bush Sprang to life As her robin , Wings vibrating . |
| 14 | Many of the characteristics of the white colonialist sprang to life , from a crazy ambition to achieve what I wanted — success and applause . |
| 15 | The mice in their home-made cage on the table by the window sprang to life at the sound of her voice and began to scutter desperately around their dwelling . |
| 16 | Plan B sprang to life as technicians , supervisors and even branch manager , Neil Gibson got stuck in . |
| 17 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 18 | Her misgivings sprang to life again . |
| 19 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 20 | Faded was the word that sprang to mind — everything had a rather tired quality about it . |
| 21 | When they reached it Sarah counted four children playing near the turf-sided lock , and fears for Angel 's safety immediately sprang to mind . |
| 22 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
| 23 | Framlingham Hall sprang to mind at that point . |
| 24 | He cursed and was about to turn away when another idea sprang to mind . |
| 25 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 26 | A million questions sprang to mind . |
| 27 | It was true that none of the ones that sprang to mind seemed particularly adequate to Folly , but then Luke probably had n't even thought she might be jealous . |
| 28 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 29 | Impressive was the first word that sprang to mind . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Isabel , her sudden hope dying as the inevitable consequences of this course of action sprang to mind . |