Sentence examples for past picture from inspiring English sources

In this warren of once-chic shops we were voyeurs, inching along past picture windows made into ghostly dioramas.

Bafflingly, though, illustration is often still seen as childish, something to be swiftly moved past – "picture books are for babies", "yes, but comics aren't proper books" – en route to maturity, the realm of 8pt fonts and tundras of frozen text.

"Down deep, I always believed that one day I would travel past picture frames and into the glow of a warmer, more mellow and more romantic light," Mr. Severs wrote.

It opened with Mrs Whitehouse cycling to church past picture-postcard cottages and whitewashed picket fences (oblivious to the occasional wife with a black eye).

Driving northwest from the lake the road winds past picture-book chalets, vineyards and fields of corn; it's all I can do to stop myself bursting into a Julie Andrew's number.

Her sobs echo through the empty rooms, past pictures of the battles yet to come.

"When you come to The Oval, every day you walk past pictures of Vaughan and Strauss doing it.

It is a very brave or virtuous man who can bear to see the incidents of his past pictured on his stomach.