Example sentences of "[art] piece of [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piece of building on the left ( with red tiles and a tree ) is bad . |
| 2 | Carol smiled thinly in response and picked at the piece of toast on her plate . |
| 3 | Fifteen seconds was given between trials in which the subject folded over the the piece of paper on which s/he had recalled the word list and wrote the number of the trial on the paper . |
| 4 | Lily put the shoes on a piece of newspaper on the table and began to pick the mud from them . |
| 5 | For example , there are major differences in the ethical issues involved for a teacher involved in a piece of action-research on language within her own classroom , and for a teacher exploring issues related to drugs and HIV across a range of schools . |
| 6 | At his elbow , a little table bore a cup of coffee and a piece of shortbread on a plate that matched the coffee cup . |
| 7 | It is indirect in the case of two flocks of geese quartering the same ground ; direct in the case of two titmice fighting over a piece of fat on a bird table . |
| 8 | Their minds being on Emma , they waited for Peggy to go on , but after placing a piece of wood on the fire she turned to them with a smile , saying , ‘ What about a drink ? ’ |
| 9 | And her brother-in-law had put a piece of wood on the top |
| 10 | This consisted of a bowl of thin soup three times a day , with a piece of bread on Sundays . |
| 11 | Make sure that each child has a piece of work on the wall . |
| 12 | Looking at a piece of work on the board Mrs Singh said she wanted her son to write like that . |
| 13 | So when they are doing a piece of work on the senses they would do this worksheet as part of that either as homework in the school library or in the local library , or as part of a classroom exercise with the teacher and the librarian present … |
| 14 | Currently he 's absorbed in a piece of work on a theme he calls Love Story , which will also be a sequential piece , though in different form to The Cricketer . |
| 15 | Well old Harry shared with my uncle he had his house and he bought a piece of land on the bottom of his garden and he built wall on his or this piece along the bottom of his garden , but er I could n't tell you , it was n't very far up the road . |
| 16 | I 've got a piece of artwork on the floor that I never thought I 'd see . |
| 17 | Marking the forces on going that way , the easy way to think of it is well what have you got to do to the bottom of the ladder to stop it from , put a piece of rope on here , right ? |
| 18 | She picked absent-mindedly at a piece of lint on one long denim-clad leg , unable for the moment to look into her friend 's probing blue eyes . |
| 19 | Mixing after 20 seconds the next sequence is also a piece of film on a second playback machine , recorded from Waris Hussein 's last episode : a recapitulation of the previous episode 's cliff-hanger as the TARDIS 's radiation counter edges into the Danger Zone . |
| 20 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 21 | ‘ I was staying at a hotel , so I rang room service for a raw steak , which arrived with a flower in a vase and a piece of lemon on the side . |
| 22 | Close by , a couple of humans were bent over a piece of machinery on a tripod . |
| 23 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 24 | A piece of impudence on my part , really , but I have a strong sense of civic duty . |
| 25 | In front of him he had a piece of cardboard on which was scrawled : HOMELESS AND HUNGRY . |
| 26 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 27 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 28 | Another gave me a slice of dark brown bread with a piece of sausage on the top which I ate because I did not want to hurt his feelings . |
| 29 | He went up to a taxi driver , the appellant , and showed him a piece of paper on which an address in Ladbroke Grove was written . |
| 30 | As he picked up his hat before leaving , something on a piece of paper on the table caught his eye . |