Example sentences of "[art] now and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every now and again a thrush would land on the ground exhausted , to be netted and put in with others in a cardboard box . |
| 2 | Another good idea on waters you know is to spend ten minutes in a swim you have never fished before — I always try and do this and every now and again a post which I have never even considered before has produced the goods . |
| 3 | Yet every now and again a student emerges who shows exceptional talent and it is quite natural that a drama school will make sure that his/her ability is given a good stretch in public with a major role , perhaps playing Hamlet or Hedda Gabler . |
| 4 | Every now and again a band comes along that completely defies all attempts at fitting into any sort of neat package . |
| 5 | It seems that every now and again the memory gets so disorganised that Windows goes off to do something about it and hence the frightening silence . |
| 6 | Every now and again the music would cut for a couple of seconds and there would be some faint , whispered phrase that would haunt its way down the wire , but she could n't make out what was said . |
| 7 | Every now and again the voice comes in . |
| 8 | Every now and again the Institute 's contribution is publicly recognised . |
| 9 | That , sort of , it 's got the , it 's one of those sort of days I think when you 've got lots of cloud about broken clouds , so every now and again the sun will come through and light up different areas of the picture . |
| 10 | Every now and again the house would shudder in an after-shock . |
| 11 | Of course every now and again the hand goes down the side a hand goes down and up comes the sweets and it 's continuous . |
| 12 | Every now and again the forest would be split by a tumbling river or a path covered in shiny brown mud . |
| 13 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 14 | Every now and then a dad would swagger in and talk to her with reverence but also with a certain courtly gaiety . |
| 15 | Every now and then a jack pike would rupture the tranquillity as it marauded the easy pickings . |
| 16 | Even so , the air was full of spray and every now and then a drift of spume , like soap suds , whipped past on the wind . |
| 17 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 18 | Every now and then the sun came out , lighting up women out walking with prams and push chairs . |
| 19 | Every now and then the fossil record throws up fossils which are palaeontological puzzles . |
| 20 | Every now and then the timing is just right for that four square magic to be stirred again . |
| 21 | Every now and then the launch took a larger wave on her starboard bow and she would shy away like a frightened colt . |
| 22 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 23 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |