Example sentences of "fire [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their positions were under constant sniper fire during the day so I had to keep as close to the ground as possible . |
| 2 | Soon afterwards there was a disastrous fire during the harvest season , and much of the south wing was destroyed and never rebuilt . |
| 3 | THE SMALL market town of Holt near the north Norfolk coast was nearly all burned to the ground in just three hours in a terrible fire during the summer of 1706 . |
| 4 | ‘ We played cribbage together by an open fire during the long winter evenings in our room . ’ |
| 5 | Scotland Yard said police did not return fire during the arrests . |
| 6 | Her approach to clothes was matched by a mother in Ritchie 's study who noted that the cost of fuel meant that she did not light the fire during the day when her children were at school but saved the limited fuel supplies to protect their standard of living . |
| 7 | Ministering on the front line under fire he showed conspicuous bravery and was awarded the MC for his tending of the wounded under fire during the attack on the Messines ridge . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 9 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 10 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 11 | They had always relied on speed and skill in horsemanship , which enabled them to dash in upon their adversaries , fire off a salvo from their short but deadly bows , and then retreat before any reprisal . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , we 're supposed to know something about handguns , and fire off a few rounds every so often . |
| 13 | ‘ Fire off the port bow . ’ |
| 14 | The ambush had taken place in the southern front area , where an exchange of fire between the two sides to the conflict took place on March 13 , with each country accusing the other of opening fire . |
| 15 | The meeting followed emergency talks held in Paris after border clashes in April and May , and an exchange of artillery fire between the border troops . |
| 16 | There were exchanges of fire between the army and fundamentalists on June 24-26 , and a total of 23 deaths were reported in Algiers and surrounding areas in the final week of June . |
| 17 | Spring roared like fire through the grass . |
| 18 | Mungo had a view of a tantalizing fire through the briefly open door . |
| 19 | The night air amplified the snort and splash of animals and I was very grateful for the orange glow of the fire through the canvas walls of the tent . |
| 20 | When the plague came , it ran like fire through the town . |
| 21 | Virgil Miller in his office ; meeting Louise at the sect van ; the ranting , golden-robed Prophet at the Crusade ; the nightmare chase in the bowels of the Washington Centre ; the confrontation with Angel One after the Jim Miller interview ; Louise 's rescue ; Pam 's hand impaled to the table ; Harry Sherman 's bandaged form and the fight with the bogus nurse in the hospital room ; his capture of the Bethlehem House Control and the gunfight in the basement corridor ; the escape from the fire through the underground tunnel ; and lastly the fight with Angel One in the clearing … the fight … he could n't recall anything after being hit in the chest … |
| 22 | fire through the mute larynx of the rock |
| 23 | The evil one stood his ground , raised his supergun and let off rapid and devastating fire through the door of room B , floor sixty-five . |
| 24 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 25 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 26 | ‘ I have not hooked Nathan Bryce , ’ she snapped , her cheeks on fire as a kaleidoscope of images whirled through her brain . |
| 27 | The inquest heard that a man confessed to starting the fire as a ’ prank ’ . |
| 28 | The inquest at Brighton was told how Trevor Carrington , a guest at the party , had confessed to his brother that he 'd started the fire as a ’ prank . ’ |
| 29 | Nearing the end Dickens uses the fire as a redemptive power to change Miss Havisham from her former harsh self to a woman wanting forgiveness as is shown in the following quotation |
| 30 | The hearth can be seen as the physical structure of the home , and the fire as the spirit that illuminates it . |