Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] above [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are starting now , love David ’ , said the first sheet , which was promptly glued to the T of the great , gold SALT 'S sign hijacked from the mill offices and hoisted above the 15 by 9 ½ft frame divided into 144 sections for the fax picture . |
| 2 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |
| 3 | An American patchwork surrounded by pictures and arranged above a curved headboard is a simple way of creating a stunning bedhead . |
| 4 | Fears that the staging might be a little too picturesque are quickly dispelled as realistic dummies drop from the ceiling on ropes and dangle above the actors ' heads . |
| 5 | Stephen could remember how hot it had been , the sky a dazzling white-blue , the heat making the air wave and shiver above the dry yellowed turf . |
| 6 | ‘ Gone ’ puts the brakes on temporarily , shifts into a slower gear and allows the hidden menace that lurks in most of their work to uncoil like some venomous snake and rises above the ruins . |
| 7 | This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion . |
| 8 | Half nude , she held onto a big , round glass ball which was slowly lowered from the flies and poised above the stalls . |
| 9 | He joined her in the bathroom , drawing back the shower curtain and shouting above the sound of rushing water : ‘ I 've got something to tell you . ’ |
| 10 | When he writes of prayer , he compares it with ‘ a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards , singing as he rises , and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ’ , and so the lark continues through clause after clause , buffeted by storms from which it takes refuge , until finally ‘ it did rise and sing , as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below ’ . |
| 11 | Finished head and rounding above the nostrils ( above ) . |
| 12 | Even so , flesh and cartilage is heavier than water and to remain above the sea floor , the sharks have to keep swimming . |
| 13 | Britain 's best known climber and sailor have combined their skills to produce a superb book of sailing and climbing above the Arctic Circle . |
| 14 | In most of them now music throbbed , thick white candles flickered and couples danced or sat in little intent circles and chatted above the din . |
| 15 | The steam engine to turn the winding drum , located in a wooden engine-house behind the conduit and constructed above a boiler-house rebated into the earthwork supporting the upper part of the planes , was a twin-cylinder high pressure jet condensing type . |
| 16 | Isabel Lavender opened her bedroom door and shouted above the noise of the vacuum cleaner . |
| 17 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 18 | She bunched her fingers into a sharp cone and stabbed above the Daughter 's girdle-line , aiming for the throat , but the Daughter was too fast , and chopped her wrist , deflecting the blow . |
| 19 | Immediately with a great flutter of wings the pigeons rose into the air and circled above the terrace . |
| 20 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 21 | Workers ' control and workers ' wages for technicians , managers and bookkeepers would prevent the re-emergence of a privileged bureaucratic stratum — ‘ privileged persons detached from the masses and standing above the masses ’ ( p. 97 ) . |
| 22 | Women were often portrayed in Greek dress , usually the chiton , a voluminous tunic , made of lightweight cloth such as linen , buttoned down the sleeves and belted above the waist . |
| 23 | The trail traverses the steep , rocky slopes of Mulldonoch and continues above the valley of the Buchan Burn to Benyellary . |