Example sentences of "they from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 2 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 3 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 4 | Death will assail them from every side , yet they shall not die . |
| 5 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 6 | In this situation the buyer , as owner of the goods , will be able to recover them from a person having a legal authority to sell them , for example , a sheriff acting in execution of a writ of fi fa to which the SGA 1979 will apply . |
| 7 | There were cut locks of hair , too : tight , black curls , some of them from a beard . |
| 8 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 9 | One should note , however , that although a mother bird may encourage her chicks to fly by calling to them from a branch some distance away , holding some tasty morsel in her beak as an inducement , all the same , she is not actually teaching them to fly . |
| 10 | Resignation threats had long been a weapon in de Gaulle 's armoury , but in the past he had used them from a position of strength . |
| 11 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 12 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 13 | Or she might call them from a telephone box on a lonely road . |
| 14 | The women 's exclusion from the pit separated them from a share in those incomes . |
| 15 | Because of the mystique — and maybe the image — celebrities and VIPs are quite daunting to those who usually only see them from a distance . |
| 16 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 17 | Exotic substances owed part of their prestige to their mere difference from ones available in the home environment , but even more to the fact that obtaining them from a distance might and in civilized societies normally did reflect the exercise of power . |
| 18 | But there was nothing she could do , except love them from a distance . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 20 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 21 | And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham . |
| 22 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 23 | At home many people have a personal medication routine such as taking medications orally ; inhaling them from a nasal spray ; applying them to the skin ; putting medicated drops or ointment into the eye ; injecting them from a syringe ; inserting them in the form of a suppository into the rectum or in the form of a pessary into the vagina . |
| 24 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 25 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 26 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 27 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
| 28 | He had done just that ; lived with them , and saved them from a doom and a captivity worse than that which gripped their forefathers in Pharaoh 's Egypt . |
| 29 | Generally , it is best for him or her to have some input into the management and other contracts instead of inheriting them from a lawyer . |
| 30 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |