Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [adj] black [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall of the castle Sir John was reasoning with a group of servants while Lady Charlotte had hysterics under the portrait of a clan chief of the sixteenth century — an armoured and bearded warrior who looked down with an imperious black stare . |
| 2 | Lee knocked again , and this time the door was immediately opened and he found himself staring down into the large black barrels of a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 3 | His hands , sliding from her hair to her neck and down inside the filmy black blouse , denied the imputation . |
| 4 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 5 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 6 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
| 7 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 8 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 9 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 10 | She looked down at the bold black signature and the printed words below it : ‘ Damian Flint , Chairman . ’ |