Example sentences of "at [art] loose end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 3 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 4 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 5 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 6 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 7 | From the novelist 's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder . |
| 8 | being at a loose end is not the condition of us spiritual and working animals , it is not being a man among men . |
| 9 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 10 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 11 | She was between jobs , at a loose end , Camb had gathered , otherwise nothing would have induced her to accompany her parents . |
| 12 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 13 | Tim tries massaging my lower back during the contraction and it feels great — he wo n't be at a loose end from now on ! |
| 14 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 15 | Youths who had left the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Doncaster roamed the streets at a loose end , causing mischief . |
| 16 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 17 | He was at a loose end . |
| 18 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 19 | In India we missionaries were at a loose end . |
| 20 | He showed his surprise on his face now as she leaned still further over the counter and whispered , ‘ The sleeping beauty 's at a loose end : she 's off from three . ’ |
| 21 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 22 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 23 | The Shakespeare School of English had switched off its neon light for a couple of months , and Oliver was at a loose end . |
| 24 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 25 | Bert , Alice was pleased to see , missed Jasper , tended to be at a loose end . |
| 26 | ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’ |
| 27 | This could be to the club 's advantage in the long-run , however , because with supporters at a loose end on Saturdays , they have an ideal opportunity to visit the ‘ old home ’ and Mr Singh 's new megastore . |
| 28 | I believe she 's rather at a loose end , but she said she could n't seem to fancy an exterminator . ’ |
| 29 | He 's at a loose end and I 'd be enormously proud to introduce you . |
| 30 | Julia spent that Thursday very much at a loose end . |