Example sentences of "[adj] circle [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He sat and stared out at the drizzle-veiled Circle for a while , and then buckled on his sword and left his room . |
| 2 | The appropriate symbol for housework ( and for housework alone ) is not the interminable conveyor belt but a compulsive circle like a pet mouse in its cage spinning round on its exercise wheel , unable to get off … |
| 3 | Using a brush , paint the centre of the doorway and the very top circle of the spaceship black . |
| 4 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 5 | The lapis lazuli scarab from the Second Grave Circle outside the citadel of Mycenae argues that Egypt was one source of supply . |
| 6 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 7 | The two lived in Paris 1921–6 , London 1926–9 , and Higham , Suffolk 1929–40 , travelling extensively and always the centre of a lively circle in the arts . |
| 8 | of the white-hot circle of the moon |
| 9 | So it should be like , your close friends and family in the middle , Bob , who 's my brother , he said he 'd give me an appointment when I come back , I 'll ring him , and then I go to the outer circle for the rest of that phone session . |
| 10 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 11 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 12 | This can develop into a vicious circle with the child eating less and less at meal-times and more and more between meals . |
| 13 | It 's nothing fancy You just put a wee circle around the answer you want to give to each statement . |
| 14 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 15 | With 250 on the clock I heave the how-heavy stick to the right and when we have twenty degrees of bank I brace , pull and reverse the roll to watch our nose carve a lazy anti-clockwise circle around the sapphire sky . |
| 16 | There was only room in each circle for a set number of species . |
| 17 | Now and then the faint popping of the jet stopped and I restored the dim-blue circle with a match . |
| 18 | Grimly they hung on , staring at the graduated circle of the instrument , and the indicator that still rested at ‘ start engines ’ . |
| 19 | For a moment , however , the white circle of the control panel set into his upper chest was clearly visible . |
| 20 | Is the method of offering a pen-drawn circle on a sheet of acetate to a map satisfactory ? |
| 21 | And do n't forget to put your little squi little circle at the top for degrees , seventy two degrees . |
| 22 | Roll out to a large circle on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour and use to cover the top of the cake drum . |
| 23 | Roll out half the marzipan ( about 350g/12oz ) to a large circle on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour and use to cover the round cake . |
| 24 | There is a large circle for the head , circles for the eyes and nose and several adjacent circles for the mouth . |
| 25 | The tight circle of the composition in the hind metope is relaxed here too , and the tilted heads inform the figures with a tragic emotion lacking in the other . |
| 26 | Birds and animals were settling for the night ; a nightjar churred , a mallard made a last leisurely circle near the riverbank and then disappeared , a moorhen called ‘ cock-cock-cock ’ to no one in particular . |
| 27 | The shining circle of the sun , the sun and the rabbit . |
| 28 | After the enclosed black circle of the night , Sara felt as though she and Matthew were in a large grey room with the blinds suddenly sprung . |
| 29 | A shaped metal guard flips down to form a complete protective circle around the cord , useful around trees |
| 30 | Start by measuring in a rough circle around the dog 's throat and up over the ears , and then add a further 5 cm ( 2 in ) to this figure . |