Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 2 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 3 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 4 | And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat |
| 5 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 6 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 7 | Putting it this simply does not make light of the doubt but takes it very seriously . |
| 8 | But the British remain fond of the welfare state ; they might , in the end , thank him if he made it work more fairly . |
| 9 | So Mr Chris Patten , if he hangs on at Bath , and Mr William Waldegrave , who has a safe seat , had better stay clear of the bar . |
| 10 | Durand , only the third Frenchman to win the event , came home alone after he and three others had broken clear of the field with 134 miles to go . |
| 11 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 12 | This allows my hand to remain clear of the work . |
| 13 | Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact . |
| 14 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 15 | As the sail whipped free of the masthead , he leaped back into the cockpit to loose the spinnaker sheets . |
| 16 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 17 | Er the position of the county council is that we remain unconvinced of a need for such a policy . |
| 18 | It was worth more than £1 to her to see the child 's face ; and again as she watched from beyond the crowd — for she waited a little once she got free of the press . |
| 19 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 20 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 21 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 22 | Hurrying to catch up with his London colleague , Giles Aplin thought the surprised man was about to slip free of the garment and make a run for it . |
| 23 | Hospital consultant John Miller said : ‘ There are children in that family who were becoming fond of the baby . |
| 24 | Remember that unless you are fitting within a window reveal , your track should , where possible , extend beyond the sides of the window to enable the curtain to stand free of the window during daylight . |
| 25 | The Cup was paraded round the ground at half-time , and Huddersfield won the match 2–1 , to pull clear of the relegation zone . |
| 26 | For them there was nothing tame about not living in the fast lane ; nothing sanctimonious about unconsciously keeping clear of the edge of the cliff . |
| 27 | Horowitz picked up his cases , retrieved his scarf from the camera , keeping clear of the lens , took the elevator downstairs . |
| 28 | He constantly ignored Bolingbroke 's maxim that Members of Parliament are like hounds that grow fond of the leader ‘ who shows them game and by whose halloo they are used to be encouraged . ’ |
| 29 | Although the Prophet Muhammad forbade castration , eunuchs were always common in Muslim society and because of their sterility were considered free of the taint of sexuality . |
| 30 | Ahead , a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor . |