Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 2 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 3 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 'd rather climb ladders than sit at a checkout . ’ |
| 5 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 6 | He opened his eyes and glanced at the clock beside his bed . |
| 7 | Ronni opened her eyes and stared at the moon , feeling her poor heart quiver inside her . |
| 8 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 9 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 10 | Ruth lowered her eyes and clutched at the banister of the stairs . |
| 11 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 12 | These are connected vertically to the idol along the spinal column , over the chakras and end at the head . |
| 13 | He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette . |
| 14 | The old English folksong demonstrates that they could often be sinister in their intent , waylaying passers-by and snatching at the wind with skinny , white hands : |
| 15 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 16 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 17 | She rocked back on her heels and clutched at the bureau for support . |
| 18 | I hold my shivering knees and stare at the shadows on the walls . |
| 19 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 20 | Wycliffe walked to work with a salty taste on his lips and arrived at the Incident Room as the little printer was opening up . |
| 21 | ‘ We should be able ter look at these books an' see at a glance 'ow we 're doin' . ’ |
| 22 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 23 | It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves . |
| 24 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |
| 25 | Under their new paymasters , filmmakers were no longer interested in the sort of inner tensions that work at the heart of the more intense and exciting British films . |
| 26 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 27 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 28 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 29 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 30 | She tucked her hands under her armpits and stared at the ground . |