Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I felt I was being followed or watched whilst seated in a tavern or moving amongst the stalls in Cheapside . |
| 2 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 3 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
| 4 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 5 | It swirled among pots that tingled and glimmered in a dance of fly-ash . |
| 6 | The economics of the base could not explain everything that existed or occurred in the superstructure ; as Marx 's collaborator Engels had suggested , the economy was only the mainspring of history ‘ in the last analysis ’ ( Gramsci , 1971 : 162 ) . |
| 7 | In particular , they tend to find collective expression , as with the medieval dances of St John and St Vitus ; the wild and orgiastic festivities of ancient near-Eastern religion , with their song and dance and sexual licence ; and , in Greece , the choruses that sang and danced in the worship of the fertility god , Dionysus . |
| 8 | Then came a slight breeze , that grew and went in the space of a few heartbeats . |
| 9 | It unfolded from a slim oblong into a sheet-sized square that flapped and fought in the wind and did n't bear much resemblance to what she 'd seen of the City so far . |
| 10 | We found a solitary gasolene pump and got the owner of it up from his couch of rags in a kennel-like shelter of tin and packing cases that rattled and moaned in the fitful wind . |
| 11 | ½ tons ) in the Works Iron Foundry and machined by the Machine Shop , the component parts also being manufactured in the Machine Shop and wired and fitted in the Electric Shop . |
| 12 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 13 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 14 | The latter writes : " Then he went on the in the year 833 … and returned and died in the month of Rajab . " |
| 15 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 16 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 17 | Pauline added : ‘ He was a great performer , and worked and worked in the clubs . ’ |
| 18 | I reached the square and went and sat in the Café des Chasseurs , where men with nowhere to rush sat smoking and drinking , blank-faced . |
| 19 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 20 | Then , suddenly and unexpectedly , in the spring of 1933 my uncle collapsed lapsed and died while walking in a friend 's garden . |
| 21 | Prototype units were designed at the international workshops and discussed and modified in the field for the APSP was far more decentralised than the Mathematics programme . |
| 22 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 23 | Short-skirted and heavily made-up , she smoked and drank and behaved in a way that outraged many of the older generation . |
| 24 | They slammed the door behind them and panted and smiled in the darkness . |
| 25 | The arrow left the string lightly , almost lazily , and struck and quivered in the centre of the path , some yards before the horse 's feet . |
| 26 | At that point he was attacked by twelve Bf109s , but evaded and got in a good burst at one that overshot him . |