Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories .
2 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
3 There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them .
4 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
5 To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous .
6 Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will .
7 Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water .
8 I heard Bernice coming just in time to fold the photocopies and stuff them inside my jacket .
9 In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share .
10 Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral .
11 Before he fired the man , Judge Shindler heard from the rest of the jury that the wayward juror had DRUNK and SWORN during the trial and DISTRACTED them while they tried to listen to the evidence .
12 He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke .
13 The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them .
14 It is , therefore , our intention to seek to increase the range of NVQs offered by the Board and to market them to employers in co-operation with the Chamber movement .
15 Edouard de Chavigny was a Frenchman ; he understood that women , when abandoned , liked some small remembrance to soften the blow and to remind them of tender memories .
16 The bosses of a troubled firm and the shareholders that appoint them choose between chapter 11 and workouts .
17 The dado complements the patterns and draws them together . ’
18 They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs .
19 Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way .
20 ‘ That meant we had to send two trains up in the morning and bring them back and then two more in the afternoon and bring them back .
21 Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal .
22 I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment .
23 Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ .
24 In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators .
25 A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons .
26 Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success .
27 Flimsy metal rails and plastic counters jar with the handsome Neo-classical forms of the galleries ; large panels have been built in the entrance of the three main galleries , blocking the views and making them look smaller , and because space is at a premium , the paintings are sometimes crowded together .
28 He also includes all the posthumous items in his Etudes symphoniques , scattering them freely through the text but playing them with such improvisatory magic that all sense of interruption or slackened structure is virtually erased .
29 She disinterred two frozen TV dinners from the big freezer in the basement and put them into the oven to heat .
30 We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’
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