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 .
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