Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth . |
| 3 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 4 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 5 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 6 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 7 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 8 | She walked the short distance to work , seeing nothing of the beauty of the day . |
| 9 | Wisden says he is nearly 82 ; he still looks nothing of the kind , but lately he has started to feel it a little more . |
| 10 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 11 | Say nothing of the hound to Sir Henry . |
| 12 | ‘ He wants nothing of a God but eternity and a Heaven to throne in , ’ he shouted at Gail Russell , frightening the girl off the street . |
| 13 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 14 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 15 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 16 | When his own practice begins he will find that his clerk has arranged conferences for him , and before the conference he will often know nothing of the questions that are likely to be put to him . |
| 17 | In fifty minutes or so , you will have an extraordinary experience : you will know nothing of the baglady to begin with , but you will know everything you need to know by the end . |
| 18 | The leader of the Peronist congressional bloc , José Luis Manzano , claimed to know nothing of the payments which another Peronist deputy , Luis Saadi , described as " odious " as well as being illegal . |
| 19 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 20 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 21 | To try somebody of a trainer er . |
| 22 | Maclagan — jogged silently down the lock 's east wall but found none of the expected demolitions at its gates . |
| 23 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 24 | Twenty-four hours ago her life had seemed straightforward and uncomplicated , and now she was staying with a family she did n't know , invited to a wedding where she would know none of the guests — and extraordinarily attracted to a man with blue eyes . |
| 25 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 26 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 27 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 28 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 29 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 30 | On politics , it has none of the Washington Post 's killer instincts . |