Sentence examples for from the bricks from inspiring English sources

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He's up from the bricks".

A touch of Alan Hollinghurst, notes of Ian ­McEwan — Hensher's edifice is built solidly from the bricks and mortar of English social realism.

Mr. Win Tin, who wrote poetry during his nearly two decades in prison, used a concoction of water and red dust from the bricks of his cell to write his verses.

IMAGINE you are in a taxi and the driver suddenly turns violently and speeds towards a wall, tyres screeching, only to stop at the very last moment, inches from the bricks—and cheerfully informs you that he wants to do the same to you in three months time.

Todd Cohen, editor of the Philanthropy Journal, notes that at the new Hugh McColl Building (called after the chief executive officer of NationsBank) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business, nearly every item is named after somebody, from the bricks on the pathway as you enter the building to the seats in the auditorium.

As a teenager, I did what all teenagers do and took them for granted, barely glancing at the photos on the walls, surveying the Honours Boards only for funny names, oblivious to the history seeping from the bricks into the very air I breathed – after all, where could I get a pint?

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The biggest challenge is separating the pennies from the brick-hard mud.

"I'm your new neighbour… From the brick house in the woods".

One thick end emerged from the brick wall the house shared with its neighbor.

"I can see the pushback from the brick-and-mortars coming a mile away".

The metal-gray sky hangs low, as smoke drifts from the brick chimneys.

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