Example sentences of "[art] rope around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I think the giant eel is biting on the ball , I 'll quickly tie the rope around this other hook inside the bucket . |
| 2 | Then tie the rope around her wrists . |
| 3 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 4 | ‘ Remember Joseph Buquet , and the rope around his neck ? |
| 5 | He commenced by criss-crossing the rope around her wrists . |
| 6 | He coiled the rope around her thighs , so she had no leeway to wriggle , and then , taking a long copper stick , he secured her ankles to either end . |
| 7 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 8 | He had watched the prison officers putting the rope around the condemned man 's neck . |
| 9 | At the top of the steps stood the condemned man with the rope around his neck . |
| 10 | And in her condition there was no way that she could have tied the rope around the beam , claimed prosecuting counsel , Rodney Klevan , QC . |
| 11 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 12 | The other stage workers found his dead body there an hour ago — with a rope around his neck ! ’ |
| 13 | Fagin described the hanging in terrifying detail , and said that he hoped he would never have to tell the police about Oliver — and see Oliver with a rope around his neck . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd look very clever with a rope around his neck , sir ! ’ replied the captain . |
| 15 | There was a rope around me and I followed after Silver , who held the other end . |
| 16 | There was a rope around his waist and he was letting himself down , hand over hand . |
| 17 | I did n't see anything except a man tying a rope around the large upper branch of a tree . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to pass a rope around the flywheel and spin the engine with it , ’ He moved two small levers on top of the engine , ‘ That 's the decompressors , when the engine turns flick one of those back and it should start . ’ |
| 19 | Or feel the wrench of a rope around their neck ? |
| 20 | They then pulled on balaclavas before driving a short distance where they stopped , pulled the woman into the back , placed a plastic bag over her head and bound her with a rope around her neck and hands . |