Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 2 | This mechanically manic installation-cum-excursion is the work of Steve Barry , a New York trained artist who teaches at the University of New Mexico . |
| 3 | At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring . |
| 4 | Among the clerics who swept through the courtyard was Dr Ahmad Najafi , a 33-year-old scholar and trained doctor who served at the front during the war against Iraq . |
| 5 | I went into Fortnum and Mason and then across the road to speak to a gentleman dressed in very fine livery and top hat who stood at the entrance to Burlington Arcade . |
| 6 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) Any competent objector who appeared at the hearing of any application mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above may appeal to the sheriff against the decision of the licensing board to grant , renew or transfer a licence , as the case may be . |
| 8 | Where an application for a permanent transfer is refused , or granted where the grant involves the repelling of an objection by a competent objector who appeared at the hearing , the unsuccessful applicant or objector may appeal to the sheriff ( s.17(4) and ( 5 ) ) , and from the sheriff to the Court of Session on a point of law ( s.39(8) ) . |
| 9 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 10 | When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 12 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 13 | He lowered his head further , until he was drinking in the sweetness of her loins with his nose and his lips , kissing and teasing , sucking the tiny proud god who reared at the entrance to the Cave as she sighed and groaned softly far above him . |
| 14 | Everton can also point to a strong international element in Leena Chagla , an Indian doctor who works at the Royal and keeps goal for them , as well as two German girls , Sylke Klaus and Gabi Von Voight . |
| 15 | Jose Ramon , a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago , will hopefully maintain these high standards . |
| 16 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
| 17 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 18 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 19 | A sense of alarm prompted her to knock again , more loudly , and this time the door was thrust open by an elegant though plainly dressed young woman who winced at the sound of breaking glass , coming from somewhere behind her . |
| 20 | one thinks of bread , cheese , butter , tea and coffee from City firms ; car loads of books from Roseburn ; a pressure cooker from a member moved by the despairing note in one of our appeals ; a whole set of Carlyles 's works , which was eventually sold to the new Carlyle library in Haddington ; fascinating nautical ephemera from the Manse ; a huge pile of oil paintings of Edinburgh from a young artist who works at the National Gallery ; even geological specimens and polished stones from a lady in our Abbeyfield House ; and of course our ‘ stock in trade ’ , those exciting grocer 's boxes of ‘ mixed ’ books . |
| 21 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 22 | Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir . |