Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 2 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 3 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 4 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 5 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 6 | He rose and went to a bookcase , where leather-bound books were displayed . |
| 7 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
| 8 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
| 9 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 10 | Then he rose and stalked to the door . |
| 11 | After several minutes he rose and walked to the shelf where he kept some personal books , among them the family bible , bearing the signature of his father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather . |
| 12 | I rose and walked to the other side . |
| 13 | She rose and hurried to the door and opening it saw not Craig but the small figure of Will Davies crouching in the street . |
| 14 | She rose and moved to the window and stared out into the silent square . |
| 15 | Miller nodded to Finch , who rose and moved to the hi-fi cabinet , where the three cassettes stood ready for use . |
| 16 | Today , the active ingredients of leaves , roots , gums , seeds , etc from many countries are extracted , purified and supplied to the pharmaceutical industry throughout the world by a factory not a million miles from Murrayfield rugby ground in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 18 | In the open , the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough grass ( 5 ) . |
| 19 | She stopped and looked to the side , and when she did n't continue , he said , ‘ He 's tried to commit suicide ? ’ |
| 20 | Benjamin stopped and pointed to the entrance . |
| 21 | He found the Regent dismounted and talking to the magistrate-father of the messenger . |
| 22 | In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop , but the noise behind him only frightened the coward more . |
| 23 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 24 | It was only minutes before the Athletico gladiators took to the field that Chamden 's assistant manager , Frank Spanner , announced that owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth amongst the first team , they had been forced to include six second-team men in their squad at Billington Euphonia . |
| 25 | And the pencil — what made that fall to the floor ? ’ |
| 26 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 27 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 28 | The report added that according to the police and the Botswana Defence Force ( BDF ) , the SADF had carried out 20 direct attacks or acts of sabotage against Botswana up to February 1989 , killing 31 civilians , of whom 70 per cent were Botswanan citizens , the rest being refugees or visitors . |
| 29 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 30 | An article in Izvestiya of Nov. 2 , however , noted that according to the 1991 Russian Federation law on the rehabilitation of repressed peoples , deported peoples had the right to the land on which they had lived before their deportation . |