Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 2 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 3 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 4 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 5 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 6 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 7 | They are attached to an alarm and when the child wets during the night the circuit is connected which activates the alarm . |
| 8 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 9 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 10 | And just to round off the day the rain stops , the Cleveland cocktail lifts and a pale , weak sun sticks his nose out from behind the clouds . |
| 11 | To round off the event an informal party was held in the evening for employees and spouses who toured the factory and enjoyed a buffet and refreshments . |
| 12 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 13 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 14 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 15 | Portman , however , makes no demands , but recommends that borrowers should take buildings and contents insurance , and if this is arranged through the society the premiums can be combined with the monthly interest payments , thus avoiding separate standing orders or direct debits . |
| 16 | The latter had been intended for the scrap-yard a short while earlier . |
| 17 | In this respect it is worth asking whether it is a mere coincidence that neo-colonialism produces for the bureaucracy a reversion to pre-bureaucratic ( e.g. medieval ) forms of compensation for service to the state . |
| 18 | The petitioning creditor must prepare for the hearing a list of all those creditors who have given notice of their intention to appear at the hearing and hand it in at the hearing(r6.24) . |
| 19 | a statement that it was made or subsisted during the year the names of the directors and connected persons concerned principal terms |
| 20 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 21 | The effective date of unemployment should therefore be regarded as the day the insured customer first registers as unemployed with the DOE/DHSS . |
| 22 | Climbing the 60 , narrow , twisting steps from the nave to the ringing chamber left me worn out — but when I staggered through the door the chamber was packed . |
| 23 | Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her . |
| 24 | In the 1650s patriarch Nikon claimed for the Church an autonomy which exasperated Alexis I , the most pious and gentle of tsars . |
| 25 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 26 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 27 | the number of virtual memory segments addressed during the time the processor is available to it |
| 28 | So , forget for the moment the big tourist attraction : explore your local area . |
| 29 | Blissett was found not guilty of ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrusting his elbow into the face of Torquay 's John Uzzell , whose cheekbone was smashed during the match a year ago . |
| 30 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |