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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
English in UK
Please explain this phrase
Hello,
I'm a university student and need to work on some english text.
I don't understand the meaning of the following phrase :
"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."
Could anyone please explain this deeper ?
Thanks,
I'm a university student and need to work on some english text.
I don't understand the meaning of the following phrase :
"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."
Could anyone please explain this deeper ?
Thanks,
Top answer
"[/nq] It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who was more interested in some (unnamed) subject for his painting than in the fashionable ladies who commissioned their portraits from him. )
- "[/nq] It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who was more interested in some (unnamed) subject for his painting than in the fashionable ladies who commissioned their portraits from him.
- )
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At 21:43:16 on Sun, 13 Nov 2005, pninja005 (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who was more interested in some (unnamed) subject for his painting than in
[nq:1]"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who was more interested in some (unnamed) subject for his painting than in
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[nq:2]"He was interested in his subject, as he by no ... ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
[nq:1]It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who ... his painting than in the fashionable ladies who commissioned their portraits from him. ("Sitting" would be "sitting for a portrait".)[/nq]
You should have said that "a
[nq:1]It's always best to give more context than you have done, but I suspect that "he" was an artist, who ... his painting than in the fashionable ladies who commissioned their portraits from him. ("Sitting" would be "sitting for a portrait".)[/nq]
You should have said that "a
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At 21:45:03 on Sun, 13 Nov 2005, John Briggs (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]You should have said that "a score" means "twenty", so "by the score" means "in large numbers" :-)[/nq]
Ah, but no. This was a multi-talented "he", and as well as being an artist he was a composer. The ladies were sitting beside his unfinished musical manuscript :-)
Molly Mockford
They that can give
[nq:1]You should have said that "a score" means "twenty", so "by the score" means "in large numbers" :-)[/nq]
Ah, but no. This was a multi-talented "he", and as well as being an artist he was a composer. The ladies were sitting beside his unfinished musical manuscript :-)
Molly Mockford
They that can give
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[nq:1]Hello, I'm a university student and need to work on some english text. I don't understand the meaning of the ... the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score." Could anyone please explain this deeper ?[/nq]
The most difficult part of this is "..., as he by no means always was ..."
"By no means" is an uncommon way of expressing the negative, so the example phr
The most difficult part of this is "..., as he by no means always was ..."
"By no means" is an uncommon way of expressing the negative, so the example phr
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[nq:1]"He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
Why does anyone write in this unnecessarily tangled fashion? I had to read the sentence several times to make sense of it, and I've been learing English for over 50 years.
Paul Burke
Why does anyone write in this unnecessarily tangled fashion? I had to read the sentence several times to make sense of it, and I've been learing English for over 50 years.
Paul Burke
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[nq:1]Hello, I'm a university student and need to work on some english text. I don't understand the meaning of the ... he by no means always was in the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be "for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"
"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be "for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"
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At 22:13:25 on Wed, 16 Nov 2005, John of Aix (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:2]Hello, I'm a university student and need to work on ... ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
[nq:1]"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be "for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"[/nq]
Not so. The expression "to sit to" an artist used to be reasonably common
[nq:2]Hello, I'm a university student and need to work on ... ladies who were soon sitting to him by the score."[/nq]
[nq:1]"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be "for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"[/nq]
Not so. The expression "to sit to" an artist used to be reasonably common
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[nq:2]"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be "for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"[/nq]
[nq:1]Not so. The expression "to sit to" an artist used to be reasonably common. Look at the top Google hits at http://tinyurl.com/7b7t3.[/nq]
Eh ben, I've never heard of it before.
[nq:1]Not so. The expression "to sit to" an artist used to be reasonably common. Look at the top Google hits at http://tinyurl.com/7b7t3.[/nq]
Eh ben, I've never heard of it before.
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