Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sodden by the now driving rain , breathing hard from the climb , Leonora crept round the house to the cluster of outbuildings at the back , where the familiar throb of the generator welcomed her like a friend . |
| 2 | The familiar smell of the cottage soothed him as he opened the door . |
| 3 | Now , thirty years later , lying rigid , her eyes fixed on the sky , she remembered that single word , his eyes looking into hers , his hands on her shoulders , the bark of the tree scraping her back through her Aertex shirt . |
| 4 | The baggy cut of the jacket made me look as it I 'd eaten one roast dinner too many , however the loose fit gave complete freedom of movement — particularly useful for stretching when scrambling or skiing . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the criteria themselves do nothing to reduce the lengths of any custodial sentences that are imposed , in spite of the exhortation to make them commensurate with the seriousness of the offence . |
| 6 | At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver . |
| 7 | When Clifford Smyth was persuaded to resign from the DUP , he also felt obliged to leave the Free Presbyterian Church , not because the leadership of the Church suggested it , but because he felt a tension between himself and other congregation members who had previously been political colleagues . |
| 8 | Yet the fragmentation of the Church makes it exceedingly difficult to implement anything like normal management practice . |
| 9 | Where a ‘ corporate ’ sense of the Church survived it usually did so , as at Holmer 's Green , through the survival of the older , Calvinist tradition which was alien to men like Clifford . |
| 10 | Although he was supposed to be in charge of the printing works it was the foreman , Mike Treloar , who ran it with Uncle keeping an eye on things and deciding policy . |
| 11 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 12 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 13 | The positioning of the controls leaves me a bit cold . |
| 14 | One of the stewards saw him a-doin' this and he say : |
| 15 | Now you 've also invited comments on er the question of whether one settlement is appropriate , and the size of the settlement do you want , would you like to take my comment |
| 16 | Their preoccupation with the military significance of the manyattas kept them , however , from consciously appreciating the extent to which it was there that the Masai received the training responsible for those characteristics which ‘ we , the British , deeply applaud . |
| 17 | The painting on the flat inner bowl of the kylix gave me a shock . |
| 18 | The large size and wide-ranging habit of the orangutan make it especially vulnerable to devastation in tropical rainforests . |
| 19 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 20 | The site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine |
| 21 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 22 | The insistent demands of the computer make it hard for attention to wander , and unlike a human opponent , it can not be sidetracked , or exhausted . |
| 23 | The impact of the rounds knocked him over on top of Kaptan . |
| 24 | But the chairman of the magistrates saiod they viewed the offences very seriously and found Mr Righton a total of £900 plus £75 costs . |
| 25 | And none of the giants want him . ’ |
| 26 | It has been a common practice since ancient times to date official documents by the year of the rulers issuing them , or from within whose jurisdiction they emanated . |
| 27 | The work of photographer Catherine Yass , was to be found in , of all places , a gallery , and , ironically , of the artist reviewed her , she is probably the most experienced in exhibiting in and accommodating the ‘ public place ’ . |
| 28 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 29 | He giggled slightly hysterically as the after-affects of the shock gripped him . |
| 30 | Secondly , regular working of the soil makes it continually receptive to colonisation by native or naturalised species as ‘ weeds ’ . |