Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 2 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 3 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 4 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
| 5 | It is not appropriate here to analyse , nor even to state , the many reasons for this difficulty , but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities . |
| 6 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 7 | It was in this year that OUP came on the scene when they contracted both with the Philological Society and with Murray to publish the Dictionary . |
| 8 | Consequently she kept digging into the supply of tissues that Lee kept on the marble slab in the kitchen . |
| 9 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 10 | Gathering her wits , she hurried into the workshop and picked up a last and a half-tapped boon Returning to the kitchen , she indicated with a nod of her head that Craig sit on the stool near the fire . |
| 11 | She rearranges the way that Jamie lies on the bed , and she tidies the blanket over him . |
| 12 | 6 It is a little-known fact that Flaubert travelled on the London Underground . |
| 13 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 14 | He only knew that Chris worked on the grocery side of the shop , and wondered how he would know him , but his problem was soon solved . |
| 15 | The submission that Selby make on the basis of constraints , of which I 've referred to earlier , |
| 16 | If he noticed the heavy slice of sarcasm that Melissa laid on the words , he paid no heed . |
| 17 | She had seen the effect that Michael had on the people around and about . |
| 18 | Cézanne worked with a full Impressionist palette , and it is evident , not only from a visual analysis of his painting , but also from his letters and from Emile Bernard 's observations on his method of work , that Cézanne relied on the exactness of tonal relationships to produce a sensation of volume and recession ; indeed , the necessity he felt to verify these relationships was one of the reasons why he was compelled to turn back continually to a study of nature . |