Example sentences of "closed [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When order was briefly restored , the coroner thanked the jury and closed the inquest on Alfred Oliver . |
| 32 | He did , smirking as he closed the drawer again . |
| 33 | Bragg closed the drawer with a grunt . |
| 34 | She closed the drawer and stood thinking for a moment , then she moved into the drawing-room and rang for the maid . |
| 35 | She closed the drawer and leaned forward against the dresser . |
| 36 | Shaking his head , he opened and closed the drawer several times as if to demonstrate its innocence . |
| 37 | Shelley cheerfully closed the drawer of the filing cabinet , put the chair tidily under the desk , and the stethoscope in the cupboard with the instruments . |
| 38 | The man closed the boot quietly and put the key into the ignition of the Saab . |
| 39 | He put it under his overcoat , gently closed the boot , and tiptoed away along the yellow pavement in search of a yellow garage . |
| 40 | The young man closed the boot of the car and handed her the keys . |
| 41 | And I closed the bonnet . |
| 42 | That defeat closed the west to the Magyars who then set about colonising the Pannonian plain and founding the state we now know as Hungary . |
| 43 | Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before . |
| 44 | Whether by design or accident , both houses closed the year with some fairly drastic pruning . |
| 45 | Among non-ferrous metals , only nickel closed the year at levels higher than in January . |
| 46 | So I closed the top of the copier and I took a blank piece of paper and again I concentrated on the idea of this woman 's surprise and then transfixion when she saw my memo until I was hard again . |
| 47 | He closed the smithy door . |
| 48 | The authorities closed the Square itself during early June , citing a number of apparently spurious events , including a mass driving lesson for the city 's taxi-drivers on June 4 . |
| 49 | Nick closed the parlour door . |
| 50 | Cranston closed the parlour door so his wife could not hear . |
| 51 | After a while Bathsheba said goodnight to her farm workers , and closed the sitting-room door and windows . |
| 52 | ‘ But they closed the factory twenty years ago , ’ said Preston . |
| 53 | Many of the former employees of Laidlaw & Fairgrieve 's Tweedvale spinning mill at Walkerburn had not bothered to claim unemployment benefit when the company closed the factory without warning in August 1988 . |
| 54 | With the car doors closed the noise was cut considerably . |
| 55 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
| 56 | When the Assembly closed the story goes that they found hundreds of dead Indians behind the screen . |
| 57 | The intervention of the Tsar 's armies closed the issue , and despatched Kossuth to exile . |
| 58 | The British chairman , George Lansbury , closed the issue for the moment with a compromise resolution which settled nothing ; it affirmed ‘ the full right of all nations to self-determination ’ and urged workers of all countries to ‘ join together to defeat international capitalism and achieve social democracy ’ . |
| 59 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 60 | The flow was so great that the authorities closed the border on Aug. 22-23 in order to cope with the backlog . |