Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet common sense — and Melody — constantly told Seb it would be not only futile but foolhardy to go to the encampment just now . |
| 2 | On arrival at the farm Edward introduced her to the herdsman then went on to his house , promising to come back shortly . |
| 3 | If Painkiller were to dump John Zorn 's sax squawk and turn their Marshalls to the max then they might just be edging close to what Zeni Geva and Albini have cooked up here . |
| 4 | The ferrymaster was absent across the Forth so Corbett told his escort to rest ; they opened their provisions , ate and drank and then lay on the sand-strewn grass , enjoying the warm noon sun and listening to the birds overhead and the constant chatter of the bees and crickets . |
| 5 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 6 | This is probably so , but may be offset by the fact that the fields are left to the birds more quickly , enabling subsequent broods to be reared undisturbed . |
| 7 | Give it to the birds then . |
| 8 | After allowing for cell adherence , increasing concentrations of histamine ( 10 - 6 to 10 -10 M , Sigma , Dorset , UK ) or cimetidine ( 10 - 5 to 10 -10 M ) were added to the wells either alone or in combination giving a final well volume to 500 µl . |
| 9 | A large bruise coloured the upper slope of one breast ; dark imprints striped her arms close to the shoulder where Goldman had gripped her . |
| 10 | She watched , as , starting at the shoulder , he wound it right down the arm and the hand , covering the fingers , then wound it back up to the shoulder again . |
| 11 | A newly-blazed path leaves the Gaping Gill area and climbs to the ridge high above in the west , there passing over Little Ingleborough to reach the main summit half a mile further on . |
| 12 | I came to the ridge again . |
| 13 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 14 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 15 | Keep an eye on the local press and as soon as you hear of a church closing , make an approach to the vicar as soon as possible . |
| 16 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 17 | Still in her wrap , she had hurried over to the drawer where the letters were kept . |
| 18 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 19 | If the point of inducing labour is to reduce risks to the neonate then it may be failing . |
| 20 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |
| 21 | Adding life peers to the calculation inevitably reduces the Etonian proportion , but Eton still accounted for four hundred out of a total 1,156 , over one quarter of the entire chamber . |
| 22 | However , the University reserve the right to vary the charges from those confirmed at the time of booking by giving notice to the Organisers not less than 10 weeks in advance of the commencement of the conference/courses . |
| 23 | According to the organisers there has already been considerable interest from a number of European and American dealers . |
| 24 | ‘ Hey , Ellen ! ’ the doctor shouted down to the galley where Ellen was trying to disguise the fact that the frozen steaks were being thawed in a microwave . |
| 25 | Taken the whole way upstairs to the galley where they go through their er helicopter evacuation drill then . |
| 26 | The date above the front door , 1772 , refers to the year when alterations were made . |
| 27 | The decisions in the annual survey , as they relate to the year ahead , can be translated directly into the cash limits and estimates presented to Parliament , without revaluation from one price basis to another . |
| 28 | The decisions in the annual survey , as they relate to the year ahead , can be translated directly into the cash limits and estimates presented to Parliament , without revaluation from one price basis to another ( HM Treasury , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | The last year 's figures cited might appertain to the year before that , and expansion prospects mooted may already have fallen through . |
| 30 | In April 1372 he was appointed Lieutenant in Aquitaine and assembled a fleet to take money and reinforcements to the garrisons there , which were hard pressed by the French . |