Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |
| 32 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 33 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 34 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 35 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 36 | In Romania , ‘ Socialism in One Family ’ meant rule by the Ceauşescus and Petrescus plus lesser client-families who attached themselves to the dynasty . |
| 37 | Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger . |
| 38 | Support of this kind was to enable Leopold to take his two young children on long musical tours throughout their formative years , tours which exposed them to a variety of European cultures and styles and which were consequently to direct the course of Mozart 's development as a musician . |
| 39 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 40 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 41 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 42 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 43 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 44 | The ones who recommend you to a mate |
| 45 | Next Wednesday , 11 women who made it to the top will speak on success and motivation for women at Women Who Win , a major conference at London 's Institute of Directors ( for details ring 071 839 1233 ) . |
| 46 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 47 | Women who consecrated themselves to the goddess in like manner cut off one or both breasts . |
| 48 | Its whereabouts remained unknown until it was consigned at auction by a private collector in Spring 1990 , and bought by collectors who gave it to the Metropolitan . |
| 49 | AFTER the strange events which took me to the West African desert , I needed a spell at sea . |