Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the half-hour I had spent with Lord Byron , I had forgotten that it was again raining steadily . |
| 2 | In the gallery I observed a group of six and seven year old children allowed to ‘ look ’ at the pictures , gravitate towards this before all others in the room . |
| 3 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 4 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 5 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 6 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 7 | And in the chapel I saw us standing |
| 8 | Somewhere in the middle I spotted Basil , the rough-coated Jack Russell , and squeezed through for an on-the-spot interview . |
| 9 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 10 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 11 | In the dormitories I identified the beds in which I had slept , with the same trays beneath them for dirty clothes and the same chairs beside them . |
| 12 | She was confined to bed and had infrequent visits from a nurse ; since my father was still in the Army I looked after myself and skipped school to visit my mother who , by this time , was in a hospital for the terminally ill . |
| 13 | In fact during my time in the army I learnt to enjoy and respect it . |
| 14 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
| 15 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
| 18 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 19 | Later in the afternoon I saw a meal for all 600 prisoners being cooked in one gigantic iron pot over a blazing fire . |
| 20 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 21 | Then in the afternoon I realized we were driving through countryside . |
| 22 | In the afternoon I meant to go swimming with Christopher , but I do n't think we 're going swimming |
| 23 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 24 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |
| 25 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 26 | Past the Bible in the window I swung into the doorway of Sachmeyer 's and up the stairs . |
| 27 | My first instinct was to back the car and find a different way round , but then in the headlights I saw that three or four men were all dressed in black shirts . |
| 28 | For the deeper shades of blue in the sea I mixed ultramarine with anthracite black to give an approximation to Paynes grey . |
| 29 | In the bathroom I saw silverfish . |
| 30 | In the bathroom I stripped slowly before the mirror . |