Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years .
2 The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him .
3 It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family .
4 He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit .
5 It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside .
6 At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over .
7 Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence .
8 This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays .
9 Turn out dough and knead on a lightly floured surface until firm .
10 Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives .
11 Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ .
12 As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir , turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar .
13 More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue .
14 This may prove liberating for many female art students who have felt isolated and marginalised within the notoriously male dominated space of the fine art department .
15 After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style .
16 And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver .
17 There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat .
18 By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper .
19 There are African masks and Polynesian sculptures bought at Sotheby 's ; goats ' skulls slung over doors ; and hanging from the walls are his own canvases — massive primitive paintings that he says are fertility symbols of women .
20 Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind .
21 Greenery was everywhere , in bowls and screens and hanging from the open balustrades , giving the teahouse the look of an overgrown garden .
22 I was scarcely called upon to say a word as she talked , pale smoke drifting from her mouth and her nose and hanging in the light .
23 Bought at the Ephemera stall for framing , and hanging in the ‘ 121 ’ office of the Principal Clerk – were the Order of Proceedings in the Hall of Assembly on the occasion of the first Assembly after the Union of the Churches in 1929 ; and also the Order of Service for Queen Victoria 's Jubilee Thanksgiving , held in the Assembly Hall in May 1897 .
24 It was the scariest thing I did last year — that and hanging around the barrios of Medellin , the drug capital of Colombia , which boasts a murder rate ten times that of Los Angeles .
25 and hanging around the street cos then that will
26 It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand .
27 He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell .
28 The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear .
29 Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony .
30 Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind .
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