Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
2 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
3 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
4 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
5 | At least that is one message 1500 of them gape at the first ever BAYSDAY , held earlier this month at various institutions in London 's museum heartland . |
6 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
7 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
8 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
9 | An antediluvian handful of hon. Members , many of them retiring at the next election , are not keen on these matters , but they are a diminishing and insignificant number . |
10 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |