Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 2 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 3 | Companies legislation ** also prohibits treating as an asset the expenses of and commission on any issue of shares and debentures . |
| 4 | The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured . |
| 5 | Well she does look like a Rottweiler a bit do n't she ? |
| 6 | There are also bouts of alcoholic excess which he continues to describe with a verve no other writer can touch . |