Example sentences of "[noun] [indef pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vases of different shapes and sizes lay beside pebbles , weavings , ancient carvings and many other objects no-one knew the purpose of . |
| 2 | Then someone decides on a set to suit the play someone brings the props and suddenly , there it is ’ — he waved a hand — ‘ dinner for two ; it 's magic . ’ |
| 3 | That 's it you 've got track erm how would you spell luck someone had a lot of good luck ? |
| 4 | Craig : That 's the gun in case someone shoots the people . |
| 5 | In a bookshop in Reykjavik someone buys a copy of the Green Box . |
| 6 | Having joked here about television 's inability to tell its expatriots ( people who once loved their country ) from its expatriates ( people who , like my mum and dad , live abroad ) on a lunchtime television programme somebody sent a cutting . |
| 7 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 8 | From Carson to Paisley one finds the argument that it is legitimate to fight to regain one 's fundamental freedom if the sovereign with whom one has covenanted one 's allegiance betrays that allegiance and conducts one into slavery . |
| 9 | Eventually , authors of the calibre of Dashiell Hammett and Chandler moved on to producing full-length books , based often on their early material in the pulps and always with the hero , the person through whose eyes one saw the story , a private-eye , a shamus , a private investigator , a P.I . |
| 10 | Between ( e ) and ( g ) there is a range of behaviour not fully illustrated by a still picture such as ( f ) , which looks like a superposition of ( e ) and ( g ) : if one watches the oscilloscope one sees the picture alternating randomly between the chaotic pattern and the ordered one . |
| 11 | But once one got into Teacher Training College one paid no attention to the course . |
| 12 | ‘ Just in case somebody takes a fancy to it . ’ |
| 13 | As he relaxed in the steaming water of his post-combat bath , Angel One reviewed the events of the past chaotic two weeks , and reflected on the capriciousness of fate . |
| 14 | The Saxon and Salian kings had in their household something approaching a school of clerical servants : never large , but always of great importance to them . |
| 15 | Banc One has a team of managers that does little but work on mergers , and with good results . |
| 16 | Banc One has a rule that it will not merge with an institution that is larger than one-third its own size . |
| 17 | In much of the best late sixth-century work one senses a struggle , the artist hardly able to contain his vision within the conventions he has not yet brought himself to break . |
| 18 | As they made their escape one produced a handgun and warned the student not to follow them . |
| 19 | Again it depends at what stage of manufacture one makes the comparison . |
| 20 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be out of a job ? ’ was the question everybody wanted an answer to . |
| 21 | I hid on bus seats , pressed myself into corners anything to evade the danger of being noticed and found wanting . |
| 22 | But for these amateurs nothing beats the thrill of that final staight … even if not all make the whole distance . |
| 23 | the other cheek Nobody knows the score |
| 24 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 25 | Well , it probably would ; it 's a question of what kind of profile one wants a university to have . |
| 26 | Group one had no recurrence at the three months . |
| 27 | The only snag was for a tran public transport conference everybody needed a car to get there . |
| 28 | Looking at these canvases one gets the sensation that the time spent in Horta was a period of almost unequalled concentration in Picasso 's art . |
| 29 | Division One sees a clash between Dave Mullins ' speedy railer Kyle Alex , which won a P1 grade race at Sunderland last Friday , and Harry Williamstrained Mailcom Soda . |
| 30 | In each case one constructs the meaning from the context and following referent or clause . |