Example sentences of "[art] rope [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as he put the rope over his head , he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head . |
| 2 | He threaded the rope through the spike 's eye . |
| 3 | He then took the rope through her front and back legs and tied it firmly to the back bumper of the Mercedes , which Angel had backed into the yard . |
| 4 | He passed the rope through the now open apertures , down into the place where those toffee-brown overcoats had once hung and above them the brown felt hats with their Cambridge-blue ribbons . |
| 5 | She waited , the cold stone of the wall pushed up hard against her breasts , her knees pushing downward into the soft , moist loam , while they unfastened the rope about her arms . |
| 6 | The one who was still conscious snarled and swore as she tightened the rope about his ankles , and she shook her head reprovingly . |
| 7 | Travis freed her first , and after stretching cramped limbs she cut the rope about his wrists , then about both their ankles . |
| 8 | Back in the saloon Trent cut the rope into four lengths and made one fast to each corner of the folded bedsheets . |
| 9 | I look down the rope into his face . |
| 10 | I pulled off my boots , put the stick between my teeth and gently went down the rope into the water . |
| 11 | Before beginning his climb , Larsen had tucked the end of the rope into his belt . |
| 12 | The second step of every hornpipe is ‘ hauling up the anchor ’ : the sailors stand one behind the other in line , bend down , grasp the rope with both hands , haul it backwards and then relax a moment before repeating the grasp and haul . |
| 13 | There you are at one end of the rope with a bell at the other — and when you pull you 're not sure what is going to happen . |
| 14 | Endill threw down the rope with the chair attached to it . |
| 15 | For answer , the boy caught at the rope with his other hand and tugged suddenly to break Sheila 's hold on it . |
| 16 | Individual capitalists could serve his cause , even making a personal profit on the way , but they were also selling the rope with which they and their class were going to be hanged . |
| 17 | One useful refinement in arresting a slip is for the leader to have a hand loop tied in the rope with an overhand knot . |
| 18 | I watched as Norman handled the rope with competent familiarity , and set out up the centre of the slab . |
| 19 | You take some of the rope with you . |
| 20 | It was chewing the rope with its ugly yellow teeth . |
| 21 | The rope beside Grant went taut and began to give off creaking noises of friction at the point where it disappeared over the edge of the stone coping , as it took the weight of the climbing man below . |
| 22 | The illustration of double ropes being used to protect a second on a traverse is incorrect ; the drawing of a double-fisherman 's knot is actually of a single-fisherman 's ; the section on rigging anchors seems very sketchy with no consideration of using the rope to equally load them , rather than slings ; different types of shunt are discussed for self-protection on abseils but there is no mention of the cheap , simple prussik knot as an alternative , or the even more effective French prussik linking the controlling rope to the leg-loop of the harness . |
| 23 | He hoisted the rope to the very top of the hill , leaped into space with his bare feet wedged against the big knot and soared like an eagle over the tree tops . |
| 24 | In a frenzied motion Mould tied the rope to the hook in the bucket . |
| 25 | Allen placed the steel bow between the stone uprights of the parapet , dropped the hook over it and lowered the rope to the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ First , we attach the stairs , ’ I said , tying the rope to the overhanging floor joists . |
| 27 | Lucenzo ran lightly to the bow and vaulted the rail , landing neatly on the jetty to fasten the rope to the black and gold-striped bricole , timing everything to perfection so that he could single-handedly dock the boat and kill the engine . |
| 28 | She shinned down the rope to Jekub 's deck . |
| 29 | He had to rip his jacket free from the wooden beam and , sprawling himself over the chair , held onto the rope for all he was worth . |
| 30 | Gerry prepared the rope for another try . |