Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy laughed as if he knew something Gina did not , and his teeth gleamed white in the dark hallway . |
| 2 | Even in the darkness Owen could see the boy 's teeth flash white in a big grin . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , when one of the climbers became stuck in the ‘ MOUNTAINEERING ’ section the rest had to rescue him and the search was abandoned . |
| 4 | In a programme ranging in character from Willie was a Wanton Wag to the Englishman William Boyce 's rather inadequate attempts to sound Scottish in A Scots Cantata , Anderson 's understandable shortcomings could surely have been further compensated for by violinist Richard Gwilt , but inconsistent articulation coupled with a lack of incisiveness negated much of the music 's subtlety . |
| 5 | Host member states remain competent in an important respect . |
| 6 | But the non-aligned states remain interested in a demilitarisation of the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | He appeared and re-appeared snapping everything that moved or did n't — such as the bowler whose fingers got stuck in the three finger holes when attempting to launch . |
| 8 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 9 | Turning the clock back to the point immediately before computers got involved in the publishing business there were only two real technologies at work ; hot metal and cold metal . |
| 10 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 11 | She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre . |
| 12 | Viccei lay low in a safe house in Hampstead , north London , for one month before being caught by the Flying Squad . |
| 13 | It remains possible , however , that these abnormalities are simply a consequence of small vessels becoming involved in the chronic inflammatory process . |
| 14 | Besides , there was safety in the farm enclosure after the gates had been barred at night , whereas in the street below their apartment the way lay open in either direction , and presences palpitated unseen in the arches of the carriage doors under each house . |
| 15 | Not only does this protect them from larger fish , it is easier to ensure they are being fed , since the powder food stays within the confines of the net and I now have 14 miniature mollies swimming free in the tank , all of which seem healthy , feeding on adult food . |
| 16 | A detailed analysis of those authors publishing first in the Scottish Journal of Geology shows the following distribution of universities : |
| 17 | Because of the potential source of artefact of such factors as the spatial layout of a research laboratory Saring and Von Carmon ( 1980 ) had their subjects lie supine in a darkened room . |
| 18 | Competition Every competitor within 20 minutes of walking time was visited , and we can report that lunchtime trade was good to excellent , and that those restaurants remaining open in the evening were well patronized . |
| 19 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 20 | Metal buckles get hot in the sun and can burn . |
| 21 | I could already see the books piled high in the better shops , garlanded with white slips of praise . |
| 22 | Their flat little heads swivelled this way and that , their eyes shining blue in the flaring light of the beacon . |
| 23 | Below a ratio of 0.5 vesicles become unstable in the chromatographic milieu and can not be detected ( unpublished ) . |
| 24 | Her eyes widened to their full luminous extent , and her lips fell open in an expression of total , artless surprise . |
| 25 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |
| 26 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 27 | Her eyes looked enormous in the aftermath of making love , great limpid pools full of warmth and love . |
| 28 | She had spent too long getting dressed , changing again and again , because her thighs looked bigger in every pair of trousers that she put on . |
| 29 | HOSPITAL waiting lists jumped 11,000 in the three months after the general election , the Government revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |