rag - and - bone man造句

• In a typical day, a rag-and-bone man might expect to earn about six pence.
• In return Tony takes her for a city picnic where they meet a rag-and-bone man.
• 19th century rag-and-bone men typically lived in penury, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day.
• His business is in paper collection and recycling which he developed from his father's business as rag-and-bone man.
• The Dutch-born Hydt is a " rag-and-bone man ", who made his fortune in the disposal of waste.
• Albert Steptoe, a " dirty old man ", is an old rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways.
• Lately, however, due in part to the soaring price of scrap metal, rag-and-bone men can once again be seen at work.
• Mayhew's report indicates that many who worked as rag-and-bone men did so after falling on hard times, and generally lived in squalor.
• In some countries, recycling is performed by the entrepreneurial poor such as the karung guni, zabbaleen, the rag-and-bone man, waste picker, and junk man.
• Later Jack tells Matt and Dolly that he was delayed by a broken-down tram, and that had to hitch a ride with a passing rag-and-bone man.
• In 1975 at the age of 13, Benson wrote a story called " The Rag-and-Bone Man " for a contest on the BBC1 children's series " Jackanory ".
• Despite the BBC's popular " Steptoe and Son ", which helped maintain the rag-and-bone man's status in English folklore, by the 1980s they were mostly gone.
• The boxes met resistance, owners of buildings resenting the cost of providing and supervising the bins, and traditional rag-and-bone men, the " chiffonniers ", seeing a threat to their living.
• Such profitability encouraged dust-contractors to recover effectively 100 % of the residual wastes remaining after readily saleable items and materials had been removed by the informal sector in the streets ('rag-and-bone men').
• Selby appeared in the third episode of " The Good Life " ( known as " Good Neighbors " in the US ), as a rag-and-bone man who sold the Goods an old wood stove and brought them a cat.
• A newspaper report of 1965 estimates that in London, only a " few hundred " rag-and-bone men remained, possibly due to competition from more specialised trades such as corporation dustmen, and pressure from property developers to build on rag merchants'premises.
• Another scenic effect occurs when the rag-and-bone man comes across the beggar girl; when he turns on his lantern to get a better look at her, a simulated stream of light, painted in white on the scenery, is added using a substitution splice.
• Harold would prefer to have a normal life and clashes with his father over the business, especially over their finances; it is a sore point that their daily trade which funds vampire hunting is rag-and-bone men, " the only job that pays " less " than vampire hunting ".