Example sentences of "[art] books which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would talk not only of their vocation to the ministry but of the books which they were reading and the circumstances of their family . |
| 2 | keep records of their own reading and comment , in writing or in discussion , on the books which they have read ; |
| 3 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 4 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 5 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 6 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 7 | I remember the books which I read in that time with a great love . |
| 8 | From the Books which I have sent , you will be able to judge of his hand-writing and perhaps also of his progress in arithmetic . |
| 9 | No one can control the protestant 's education or the books which he shall read . |
| 10 | But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science . |
| 11 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 12 | He had achieved this at Bec in his teaching , in the books which he collected , and — in the larger world — in his Eucharistic argument . |
| 13 | Some of the books which he is known to have possessed , which included Christine de Pisan 's Letter of Othea to Hector , a didactic work for knights , reinforce this view . |