Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed a police car on the bridge . |
| 2 | One of them grabbed the youth by the neck as he approached a police van in Tarling Street , Stepney , east London , telling officers he believed the youth had been involved in an attack on an elderly woman . |
| 3 | One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel . |
| 4 | From Wilson 's Grammar School in Camberwell he won a scholarship to St Dunstan 's College , and from there in 1921 he entered the honours school of chemistry at University College London . |
| 5 | In the 1950s he joined the Architects Division at the LCC as a trainee , later becoming a member of the Development Group . |
| 6 | He joined the police force in 1975 and was at one-time an Inspector at the Alton station . |
| 7 | Piers Ottey studied at Chelsea School of Art , where he obtained an honours degree in Fine Art . |
| 8 | With 11 holes to play , Stephens ' overnight four-shot lead was cut to two , but birdies at the 11th , 12th , 13th , 15th and 17th — where he hit an out-of-bounds wall behind the green , then holed his pitch — put the result beyond doubt . |
| 9 | He wore the police issue of corduroy clothes and heavy clogs , but when he saw Joe watching him he struck a pose , one hand on his hip and the little finger of the other crooked genteelly beside the iron cup . |
| 10 | That he won a points decision against the Californian Mark Wills at Wembley will give them some reassurance that the British heavyweight champion could give a reasonable account of himself against an opponent who will not crumple easily . |
| 11 | The son of a Scottish blacksmith who had moved south from Aberdeen , Buchan had played for Arsenal as an amateur in the Woolwich days , until he presented an expenses bill for 11 s , and was suspended for extravagance . |
| 12 | Mr Wickens , 32 , whose firm owns several games shops , was wearing a dinner jacket and black tie as he left an awards dinner at a Marble Arch hotel . |
| 13 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 14 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 15 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |