Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Due to the timescale involved in ordering the guitar and building it , this competition will close a little earlier than would normally be the case — on 19th February 1993 . |
| 4 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |
| 5 | Whether we 're covering Bananarama 's latest career move or state terrorism in Italy , we can promise the coverage and reporting you need to keep in touch . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That summer the Allies announced that the families who had helped prisoners-of-war would be remunerated for the board and lodging they had given : a form could be collected from the town hall . |
| 8 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |
| 9 | Marjorie laughed , and though she was very kind , washing the lettuce and leaving it ready in the colander and telling her how to cook the asparagus and make a butter sauce , Emmie felt humiliated . |
| 10 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 11 | Isabel opened her mouth to protest at this cavalier treatment of her clothing , only to shut it again in alarm when he took a step forward and leaned over her , bracing his hands on the mattress and trapping her between them . |
| 12 | By making his close friend Prince Aleksandr Bariatinskii Viceroy of the Caucasus and ordering him to take all necessary steps to bring the campaign against Shamil to a successful conclusion , the tsar gave an innovator scope for the exercise of his talents . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 17 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 18 | As one group member said : ‘ What I 'd like to see happening is this room set up with the computer and using it regularly to type up the notes from our meetings . ’ |
| 19 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 20 | They had been so busy collecting the birds and tying them up . |
| 21 | But sometimes a similar result can be obtained by casting the cow and rolling her over , so why not by making her run ? |
| 22 | Mr R. Batson , Hyssington for preparing the plans and submitting them to the Local Authority for planning permission . |
| 23 | Meredith felt her legs give way , and lost her balance , but Lucenzo snaked out a hand and caught her expertly , firmly pushing her against the hatch and holding her there while she regained her equilibrium . |
| 24 | They took the form of both the grandmother and father doubting the decision and persuading her to change her mind ; and from medical advisors and social workers seeking to persuade her to keep the child . |
| 25 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |
| 26 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 27 | It was already off the deck and bearing them smoothly upwards . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , some of their riders then did them no favours whatsoever by steering for the rail and getting them penned in the pack . |
| 29 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 30 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |