Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rainwater washed away the topsoil and made it difficult to replant trees . |
| 2 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 3 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 4 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 5 | Using Wella 's High Hair Form & Finish Spray for extra hold , he pinned the hair and brushed it flat for a sophisticated Sixties style . |
| 6 | The honey was fermenting but she chewed up the nut and swallowed it avidly ; then , encouraged by Tom , she dipped her finger in the honey and licked it clean . |
| 7 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 8 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 9 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 10 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 11 | They took the keys and the car and left me stranded . ’ |
| 12 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 13 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 14 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 15 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 16 | They have put it to the test and found it true . |
| 17 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
| 18 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 19 | He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open . |
| 20 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 21 | Er by the man who or one of the men who swept the shop and kept it clean and all the the the one of the labourers , that my job was to one of my jobs was to make the tea for the men . |
| 22 | But perhaps , after all it was a good thing that Miss Potts had come into the room and heard it all . |
| 23 | Walking carefully he crossed the room and pulled it clear of what lay beneath it . |
| 24 | Arthur scrutinized the business and thought it makeshift but not bad . |
| 25 | When the doorbell rang shortly before ten o'clock , she assumed it was the postman and answered it ill-prepared for the face that greeted her . |
| 26 | I loved the cake and ate it all . |
| 27 | He reached up , took the weight of the body and lifted it higher and then wrenched the material of the tunic from the barbs of the wire . |
| 28 | He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford . |
| 29 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 30 | When Dyson was hidden beneath the bonnet again Bob tiptoed round to the boot and eased it open . |