Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
| 2 | In the first case we need a level ‘ above ’ physiology and in the second we need a level ‘ below ’ reasoning . |
| 3 | At the second he had a bogey five to James 's three and was five strokes adrift . |
| 4 | In the Seventies she made a come-back and played to full houses at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , re-coloured and with some discreet censorship . |
| 5 | The younger you get a bird of prey the better , really — eight weeks is an ideal age . |
| 6 | But in the minds of the sick it suffers a mutation : the lens becomes a prism , it refracts and splinters the uniform vision of the ideal interracial society . |
| 7 | For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation . |
| 8 | As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse : |
| 9 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 10 | For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’ |
| 11 | To the latter he left a comfortable estate . |
| 12 | Goff became a regular visitor to Hamilton Terrace , a friend of Minton and also Vaughan , though the latter he found a taciturn , difficult person . |
| 13 | In the 1590s he favoured a tactic of moderation in the expectation of a favourable political change . |
| 14 | can understand something , it 's my birthday , right May the seventh I want a present . |
| 15 | Beyond the Awash we passed a number of Arussi graves , some with figures crudely incised on upright stones . |
| 16 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 17 | A pupil of Augustus Pugin the elder [ q.v. ] , in the mid-1830s he became a partner of his father . |
| 18 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
| 19 | She also says : ‘ … where people have been in the habit of reaching out towards the Unseen they wear a kind of track , and it 's much easier to go out that way . ’ |
| 20 | Me and my mum bought one of those and we had that between us and we bought one of those each for the kids , even though she swindled sweets in her bag , we started taking sweets in the bag and bottles of drink , but that was n't the same they wanted a cartoon cup , so we |
| 21 | Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works . |
| 22 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 23 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't give it that name , but all the same it made a difference . |
| 25 | But all the same she felt a flash of gratitude for the wonderful way Desmond had kept up her morale over the past ten emotionally tormented days . |
| 26 | He was an assessment commissioner for Westminster and Middlesex in 1649 and in the 1650s he held a number of minor central and local offices and was a commissioner of oyer and terminer . |
| 27 | As I walked to the fair I noticed a polystyrene cup , a discarded baby 's dummy and a chicken leg ; hardly a balanced diet for a fox . |
| 28 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 29 | In Cambridge in the 1930s he ran a gallery of modern art with Julian Trevelyan , edited Shakespeare 's 1593 Quarto of Venus and Adonis , with Jacob Bronowski [ q.v. ] founded and wrote for the magazine Experiment , and designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions . |
| 30 | But in the mid-eighties it developed a line of kitchenware going completely over to this at Christmas . |