Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curl crazy style from Mac & Co with the hair pinned up in a small coils from the crown to the fringe |
| 2 | Then the driver hunched down with a magazine , the door buzzed open and Maxim went in . |
| 3 | Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip . |
| 4 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 5 | So the question becomes one not so much of scoring as of affect : did Monseiur Blondel sing Hymen straight , or was the part conceived rather in a humorous vein ? |
| 6 | Far Eastern reports of imminent bid terms from Hongkong & Shanghai Bank caused some early excitement in Midland Bank and , despite a denial , the stock held on to a 10 point rise to 345p . |
| 7 | The USC claimed by Jan. 1 to control large areas of the capital , with the President pinned down in a bunker at a military base south of Mogadishu airport ; later reports said he was confined to the presidential palace . |
| 8 | The result was that when impatience to reach out to the peasantry boiled over into a significant movement in the early 1870s there was minimal planning and organization . |
| 9 | You can do the work yourself , use a ‘ network installer ’ , or get the work carried out by a contractor . |
| 10 | Grotesque bunches of fingers waggled their shadows against the wall near her face , the ceiling peeled back like a tin lid . |
| 11 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 12 | ‘ A very good evening to you , dottore ! ’ the boy called out in a bad parody of a Venetian accent . |
| 13 | I went to the conference armed only with a general feeling of being pissed off that men seemed to have it all their own way . |
| 14 | The slipstream built up to a scream , and despair drugged his actions . |
| 15 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 16 | At the back , the blouse cut away in a big yawn down to the wide plastic-belted top of her mini-skirt . |
| 17 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 18 | The leader stepped out of a hut adjacent to the road block . |
| 19 | On this definition , the dominant eye may or may not be the same as the eye chosen preferentially on a monocular sighting test . |
| 20 | Fairham swallowed hard as he saw another portion of the carcass cut away by a powerful blow . |
| 21 | And , he 's , she s keeps on at him all the time , he 's never taken a photograph of the place laid out for a big dinner . |
| 22 | He knew he was behaving ludicrously and the sooner he got the wench locked up with a pack of nuns the better . |
| 23 | The moon dipped out of a cloud , and Jed shuddered . |
| 24 | Here , the length will have to be marked on the last piece when it is in position and the excess cut off with a hacksaw . |
| 25 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 26 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 27 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 28 | Each team had a couple of scoring opportunities and a few short corners but the game dragged on to a scoreless draw . |
| 29 | If an individual 's conduct is thought to justify it , dismissal could be without notice , but generally it should be carried out in accordance with the notice set out in a member of staff 's contract of employment . |
| 30 | The gifts of the Spirit come out of a living relationship with the Father . |