Example sentences of "[noun pl] follow [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 2 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 3 | This was generally true of much news reporting in Zambia not just in the press but on radio and television as well : journalists followed the president , ministers and district governors around . |
| 4 | Their demands followed the arrest of Aristide Sokambi , chair of a co-ordinating committee set up to convene a national conference . |
| 5 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 6 | In many other parts of the country , primary schools followed a curriculum in which formal activities in number and language occupied the bulk of children 's time in school . |
| 7 | The harvesters followed the machine , picking and tying up bundles of corn . |
| 8 | In the apt selection of active incidents , the clear response of a hero to the challenge of danger and the support of interesting detail , Forester 's books followed the conventions of adventure-story which had governed ‘ boys ' stories ’ for two centuries and the undercurrent of irony in the presentation of Hornblower as reluctant hero was hardly insistent enough to perplex immature readers . |
| 9 | The showmen followed the debate closely and reacted to every criticism by taking a further step towards respectability and soon the fashionable Loop crowd were as eager to see the movies as were the masses . |
| 10 | Smith devoted some space to explaining how , imbued with martial spirit , yeomen followed the lords of whom they held their land to war , serving on foot as archers . |
| 11 | Everyone 's eyes followed the direction of his finger . |
| 12 | Isabel 's eyes followed the direction of Adele 's to rest on the woman seated midway along the high table . |
| 13 | He stood up and stretched , and Alyssia 's eyes followed the contours of his lean body , with the faded denims and short-sleeved T-shirt . |
| 14 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 15 | Spittals ' red eyes followed the curve of Blanche 's bottom on its gyrating course to the door . |
| 16 | But as I was walking around I noticed how her eyes followed the dog with great interest . |
| 17 | Roman 's eyes followed the movement , his eyes darkened , and the tension between them increased to danger point . |
| 18 | His blue eyes followed the movement . |
| 19 | All eyes followed the Collector as he strode about the enclave grimacing and muttering to himself . |
| 20 | Thirty Dragoons followed the Sergeant . |
| 21 | A blossoming of the arts followed the rebuilding of Cuzco after the catastrophic earthquake of 1650 , partly due to the arrival of Bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo . |
| 22 | Dynastic disputes followed the death of Albrecht , who died from dysentery in 1439 , whilst preparing an army to keep the Turks at bay , and the Habsburgs were temporarily eclipsed as incumbents of both the Imperial and Hungarian thrones . |
| 23 | The dismissals followed a report by a special inquiry into the loss of ships and aircraft during the cyclone in April [ see p. 38176 ] . |
| 24 | The dismissals followed the resignation of the chairman of the Doosan Electro-Materials Company , which had admitted responsibility for leaking highly toxic phenol waste into the Naktong River . |
| 25 | The March 20 joint Iran-Saudi communiqué announcing the restoration of full ties followed a meeting three days earlier in Muscat , the Omani capital , of Foreign Ministers Ali Akbar Vellayati of Iran and Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia . |
| 26 | Both brothers followed the family tradition and became mullahs . |
| 27 | The 10-year-olds followed an adventure route of ‘ real life ’ scenarios challenging them to think of how to deal with emergency situations that they might have to face in daily life . |
| 28 | However , in October 1931 , with the arrival of the London United cars these four cars followed the L Type into store at Fulwell depôt . |
| 29 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 30 | Larger and smaller weights than the gram are built up exactly as they were in the system of length measurement , so that again the table of weights follows the place values of number and decimals . |