Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 2 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 3 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 4 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 5 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 6 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 7 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 8 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 9 | They remind us that this gentle southerner , who gave so much to Yorkshire , also found in it a sustaining strength and beauty . |
| 10 | Hence planning was not a uniquely left- or right-wing cause between the wars , it was a response from progressive capitalists , professional people , academics , centrist politicians and socialists who found in it a means of advance over a wide range of social and economic problems . |
| 11 | Different as his experience was from that of the curia , he found in it an ally far more than had Paul with his long curial background . |
| 12 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 13 | ‘ You told me you learnt about it a couple of weeks before Nicola was murdered . ’ |
| 14 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 15 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 16 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 17 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 18 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 19 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 20 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 21 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 22 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 23 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 24 | Although behind them was a six-foot-high beer-bottle , with the red-lettered statement ‘ A Man 's Drink ! ’ across it , they superimposed upon it a silent and rocky country where there was always a wind blowing with a touch of rain on it and few birds sang . |
| 25 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 26 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 27 | At its peak , in June , when 12,000 vehicles were employed , one passed along it every fourteen seconds , and it was estimated that the mileage accrued each week along its short fifty miles added up to twenty-five times the earth 's circumference . |
| 28 | From this awareness of individuation or , to use the Scotist term , haecceitas , came Hopkins 's overriding concern with ‘ inscape ’ in every aspect of the created world : the obsession with the ‘ selfhood ’ of every object or being , at the same time that he perceived behind it the generically divine . |
| 29 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |
| 30 | She talked about it a little , wondering what had happened to you , feeling it was better not to interfere , so I did n't tell her I 'd found you . |