Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince .
2 Death will quickly draw the veil and make us see how near we were to God and one another , and did not sufficiently know it .
3 She lifted her hand to the board and let it drop .
4 Were you given the money or did you have to pay for that yourself ?
5 Flimsy metal rails and plastic counters jar with the handsome Neo-classical forms of the galleries ; large panels have been built in the entrance of the three main galleries , blocking the views and making them look smaller , and because space is at a premium , the paintings are sometimes crowded together .
6 I 'll do my best to answer any questions on the outdoors and to let you have your say , so there 's no time to waste — get scribbling now .
7 I 'll do my best to answer any questions on the outdoors and to let you have your say , so there 's no time to waste — get scribbling now .
8 I 'll do my best to answer any questions on the outdoors and to let you have your say , so there 's no time to waste — get scribbling now .
9 I 'll do my best to answer any questions on the outdoors and to let you have your say , so there 's no time to waste — get scribbling now .
10 Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks .
11 ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen .
12 There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking .
13 ‘ Our combined weights on the outside of the cradle pushed it into the side of the building and made it tip , ’ said Warel .
14 There are tennis courts at many of our hotels and within the resorts and to help you make your holiday choice we provide this brief guide .
15 But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ?
16 How do you work , do you buy in the uppers or do you do the entire job yourself ? ’
17 But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly .
18 THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on .
19 ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’
20 Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing .
21 Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ?
22 Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion .
23 ‘ But we do not proceed on some of the grounds mentioned at the bar , such as the effect of the plaintiff 's alteration of the instrument as making it void , or that the defendant thereby lost his right to contribution from the joint makers of the note ; nor on any doctrine as to the relation of principal and surety .
24 He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’
25 Alternatively when the display is switched off ( 2a ) the LC molecules are aligned with the light and let it pass .
26 IT 'S the rematch of the decade — the Buffalo Bills against the side that made them look like schoolboys in Superbowl XXVII , the Dallas Cowboys .
27 Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets .
28 After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry .
29 I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath .
30 That was the obsession that made me write this . ’
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