Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good . |
| 2 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 3 | And Jamila was interested in anarchists and situationists and Weathermen , and cut all that stuff out of the papers and showed it to me . |
| 4 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 5 | But it was the natural kindness of the Duke that helped me most . |
| 6 | They should let us get out of church and then get the people they want instead of grabbing the person they want right in the middle of the church and carrying them out . |
| 7 | He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen . |
| 8 | Earnestly , Oz scooped them out of the basket and held them towards the woman . |
| 9 | Lyn took the cat out of the basket and held it against her . |
| 10 | Rosa often went to the washplace with Sabina to help her and she was glad that she could pull her blue cotton dress out of the basket and slosh it into the water before anyone else could examine it for stains ; not that the stain spoke openly of its origins ; it could easily have been milk , thought Rosa . |
| 11 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 12 | He got up from his chair , fetched a rolled-up plan from the top of the sideboard and spread it over the litter on the table . |
| 13 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 14 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 15 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 16 | The true cats of the genus Felis have a different attachment of the larynx that robs them of this ability . |
| 17 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 18 | It should be recognised that many of the problems that face us are not a result of the National Curriculum ; they have existed in the curriculum for decades . |
| 19 | This objective , though still sought as the panacea for all stratigraphical ills , has caused many of the problems that afflict us today . |
| 20 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 21 | When you went to the pictures you did n't want to be reminded of the problems that dogged you outside the cinema : jobs , children , money and so forth . |
| 22 | In this short series , Diane will try to solve some of the problems and give you new ideas for using the garter carriage . |
| 23 | For example , you can put down hoops or ball cans in certain areas of the court and use them as targets . |
| 24 | He picks up the Business Section of the Times and takes it into the kitchen . |
| 25 | Buckingham Palace officials at the time played down the seriousness of the problem and insisted he would join today 's traditional procession of Garter Knights to St George 's Chapel , Windsor , with the Queen , Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Mother . |
| 26 | Rather the role of the Holy Spirit is to heighten their awareness of the problem and enable them to identify with those to whom they are called to speak . |
| 27 | There are formal operational thinkers — those who immediately grasp the abstract form of the problem and solve it quickly and easily . |
| 28 | Remember however that current affairs and news programmes are rooted in the moment and the particular local concerns of the country that produces them . |
| 29 | He 'll take you safely out of the country and give you a hundred thousand pounds . ’ |
| 30 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |