Example sentences of "scatter [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow gathered in a thin cloak on his tunic 's shoulders and he made no attempt to scatter the fall . |
| 2 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 3 | Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family 's wishes . |
| 4 | The New Zealanders , appropriately garbed in funereal black , arrive next week to scatter the ashes . |
| 5 | It is best to scatter the seed evenly across 3–4in-wide bands made with the blade of an onion hoe . |
| 6 | She shook her head slightly , trying to clear her thoughts , but a tiny suspicion , the merest thread of possibility persisted : it just might be that the man whose initial scattered the pages of Elise 's diary before abruptly ceasing , three weeks before her death , could have some bearing on the mystery . |
| 7 | Around him lay scattered the festering remains of half a dozen meals . |
| 8 | The weather had turned a chill grey , and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires . |
| 9 | The front door slammed distantly , the Aston Martin 's tyres scattered the gravel noisily on the drive , and still she stood there , torn inside , unmoving , until Charles came to see if she was coming with them to the hospital to visit Lucy . |
| 10 | Philip 's Mum scattered the oven chips on the baking tray . |
| 11 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 12 | In Holland about 400 tons of lead shot are scattered every year . |
| 13 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 14 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 15 | At Marienburg the Orcs fought a massive and bloody sea battle against the Empire fleet , sending half the Imperial ships to the bottom of the sea and scattering the rest to the four winds . |
| 16 | ‘ Hank Stych ! ’ he hailed a startled Boyd , who had half risen from an easy chair , scattering the papers on which he had been working . |
| 17 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 18 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 19 | Gone were the days of scattering the Brewery 's waste sawdust on the greens . |
| 20 | By scattering the fertiliser pellets over his vineyard the vigneron is helping to restore the vine 's balance of resources . |
| 21 | However , he had successfully blown Voltaire 's head out of the bore of the six-pounder ; it rolled over the rampart and landed among the skeletons , scattering the pariah dogs who were sunning themselves there while waiting for their next meal to be heaved over . |
| 22 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 23 | There is quite an art in scattering the pennies so that they do not hurt the children . |
| 24 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 25 | And he ran full speed down the hill , by-passing the bodies of Rebel and the lamb and scattering the sheep that had almost settled again . |
| 26 | At the sound of the voice coming from behind her , Jill jerked forward , scattering the boxes she had been stacking . |
| 27 | When the box falls from the tree and hits the ground , it splits open scattering the nuts . |
| 28 | It was fortunate that at that moment the handle of her basket , insecurely mended , should suddenly give way , scattering the contents over the pavement — a library book , some oranges , and a rather shamefully adolescent bag of liquorice all-sorts . |
| 29 | There was a loud clack behind him as one of the players hurled the white down the table , scattering the colours . |
| 30 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |