Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] on [art] banks " in BNC.
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1 | That is what the Belgrade Tourist Board was offering in April : a day trip to the pretty historic Croatian town of Vukovar on the banks of the Danube , which Serbian-led troops pounded to bits during an eighty-six day siege last autumn ( The Art Newspaper No. 11 , October 1991 , p. 1 and No. 12 , November 1991 , p. 10 ) . |
2 | A wash of a bluer version of the grass and tree colours was applied last , on top of the first dry coats of colour on the banks and water . |
3 | The second week was spent in Berlin , where the group was able to study the effects of unification on the banks . |
4 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
5 | In one of the novels of Albert Camus an unfortunate man is walking at night on the banks of the Seine when a suicide , having cast himself upon the waters , cries for help . |