Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a picture [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way information is gradually built up , helping to paint a picture of the lives and lifestyles of the birds which appear so dramatically in the islands . |
| 2 | A more serious problem is the bias of the sources , which reflect the views of the ruling class rather than those of the rebels and therefore tend to paint a picture of disorder rather than to record the grievances which prompted the revolt . |
| 3 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 4 | It has presented a picture of a large number of upper-middle-class families drawing their substantial incomes from industry whilst moving in a milieu which extolled and practised the alleged virtues of the English gentleman . |
| 5 | Research on interests in local politics , and research on the " third world " of groups at the national level with only limited and sporadic access to government , has revealed a picture of the interest-group world starkly at odds with the rosy optimism of the pluralist perspective . |
| 6 | Much of the discussion in this section has conveyed a picture of relentless toil , but this is not the whole story . |
| 7 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , do you first need to form a picture of the two of us sitting in that café discussing your father — an eidetic image — before the words come to you , or not ? ’ |
| 9 | Sarah has kept a picture of herself in her underwear when she was literally skin and bone . |
| 10 | The ‘ thirtysomething ’ syndrome seems responsible for many of her commissions — one woman has ordered a picture of her husband ‘ because he 's a successful , handsome man ’ , and she wants to ‘ get him while he 's till good-looking ’ . |
| 11 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 13 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 14 | He 'd created a picture in his own mind of what she was like , and it was obvious nothing was going to alter that . |
| 15 | When you get a lock-on , just fire the weapon and watch the scanning monitor broadcast a picture from the camera in the nose of the torpedo . |
| 16 | We should 've had a picture of that . |
| 17 | One expectation of the ASW is that others in the patient 's social network — relatives , friends , neighbours and so on — should be consulted to help build a picture of the individual and their behaviour ( DHSS , 1983 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | He was intensely serious about the place of art in life , and I can remember painting a picture in the main art room at Berkhamstead , one I was to sell years later in Manchester , and the way in which he valued this gave me a sense of value in my own achievement . |
| 19 | In this way , they manage to give a picture of how the structural ambiguities of discourses of gender and the individual subject intersect . |
| 20 | While archaeological survey and excavation directed by Dr Trevor Watkins and Caroline Wickham-Jones is beginning to uncover a complex , changing pattern of human settlement , palaeoenvironmental studies are attempting to draw a picture of the evolution of the local landscape . |
| 21 | Get your financé involved too , so that you can begin to build a picture of the colours and designs that you both like or more importantly hate ! |
| 22 | ‘ Now there are people around who are saying , ‘ I wish I had never bothered taking a picture of Kylie Minogue ’ , ’ he added ruefully . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've just got to get a picture of this , ’ he muttered . |
| 24 | Together with snoopers in aircraft and on the ground , these satellites helped form a picture of Iraq 's command and control network and air defences . |
| 25 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 26 | While there are a number of on-screen drawing programs which allow the creation and manipulation of an image but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 27 | At the very least , he was beginning to form a picture of the relationship between Peter Fleming , Nona Pitt and Terry Place . |
| 28 | He was beginning to form a picture of the murderer and even beginning to wonder if he had a match . |
| 29 | when they come , you 're bound to get a picture in the paper of it happening . |
| 30 | Do n't try to paint a picture of your client being the perfect citizen if he 's not the perfect citizen . |