Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 2 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 3 | The activities I have tried have been successful , and I shall try many more . ’ |
| 4 | Q Although I 'd love to fill my home with baskets of potpourri , ornaments , vases , dried-flower arrangements and all the accessories I often read about in Ideal Home , my problem is the children . |
| 5 | I all the forms I 've before are version numbered and dated . |
| 6 | However , I think the minister had something to do with the essays I wrote and the natural history notes I kept day by day besides the almost daily entries in a general diary … |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm much more restrained now in the hats I choose to wear . |
| 8 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 9 | ‘ The experts I 'm talking about are the ex-members of various secret services and police forces . |
| 10 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 11 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 12 | However , convincing myself the pebbles I was climbing on would n't pull out did take a little time . |
| 13 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 14 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 15 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 16 | Parker turned out out be one of those people whom Glass only saw ‘ through the windows of the clubs I could n't get into . ’ |
| 17 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 18 | On the expenditure side of the accounts I can say that , certainly up to the half way stage of the financial year , the budget is holding . |
| 19 | Of the programmes I 've watched-not all of them , let me confess-only the third , on the dhow in the Gulf seemed to enter into a wholly unknown , and dangerous environment , a way of life I could never have imagined . |
| 20 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 21 | After the fiasco over the programmes I shall take full control of this project and set up my headquarters in the Jessie Matthews Lounge at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 22 | I 'm a creature of habit — in the way I have my hair cut , the suits I wear , the eternal brown boots that I get ribbed about and which are fleetingly seen by the viewers at the end of the programme as we come to the closing headlines . |
| 23 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 24 | That may be significant because of course owner occupation has increased quite significantly in recent years to the great regret of many many of the home o of the occupiers I mean . |
| 25 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 26 | On behalf of the Board and the shareholders I would like to thank all employees in both Group businesses for their continuing valuable contribution in another extremely difficult year . |
| 27 | My Lord I think it 's right that that it 's clear from the discussions I 've had with Mr that the plaintiff is going to be in the witness box for some considerable time and I think if your Lordship 's had an opportunity to read the witness statement , seen the areas of dispute , the nature of the the fact that arised and had a look at some of the documentation , it would be much er er a much speedier process than it would otherwise be . |
| 28 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 29 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 30 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |