Example sentences of "with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smooth 'd up his Face and with a leering Eye |
| 2 | With a tinkling sound , the spring emptied into a shower basin at the edge of the jungle . |
| 3 | She was a shy , quiet woman in her mid-twenties with a tinkling nervous laugh . |
| 4 | A copy of the morning paper was lying on his tooled leather desk top ; he pushed it across to Tom , stabbing at the story with a manicured index finger . |
| 5 | Jane scratched the side of her nose with a manicured fingernail . |
| 6 | Wrapping her sable coat close about her slender form , Countess Dominique de Borchgrave slides into the driver 's seat of the BMW 325i convertible and , with a manicured finger , presses the button to lower the electric roof . |
| 7 | BORIS BECKER bounced back from a poor spell with a 7–6 , 6–3 victory over world No 1 Jim Courier in the quarter-finals of the Paris Open yesterday . |
| 8 | I suggest starting with a cheaper jacket until you get hooked — and you can always wear it at weekends afterwards . |
| 9 | He got the porter to buy him aftershave , but they did n't sell his musky expensive brand in Perth so he had to make do with a cheaper one from the tourist shop . |
| 10 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 11 | They are to be replaced with a cheaper type of brick to be covered in a special layer and painted in a new light colour . |
| 12 | ARGYLL group , which runs the Safeway supermarkets , yesterday headed off market fears of another big cash call by launching a £150 million fixed-rate Eurobond issue , replacing expensive short-term debt with a cheaper long term loan . |
| 13 | So we decided to take a look at just a little of what was on offer — comparing the leading firework brand with a cheaper one on offer . |
| 14 | Two types , one with a pecking bird and one with a facing head , have been found in relatively large numbers in the excavations at Southampton and only rarely elsewhere . |
| 15 | Settlements in south-west Scotland were reworking Anglo-Saxon bronze scrap and perhaps glass ; the fragmentary whetstone with a facing human head from Collin , Dumfriesshire , is stylistically related to the examples from Loveden Hill and Sutton Hoo and may point to the exchange of goods between the areas . |
| 16 | Mr Klaus , who is also the finance minister , has used the Forum 's regional activists as a base to gain backing for his own conception — a right-of-centre party with a stricter line of command . |
| 17 | All his beers have a tempting hop resin aroma , balanced by pale and crystal malts , with a tiny proportion of chocolate malt . |
| 18 | the [ priest 's ] sprinkler is always moist with a tiny droplet , like Alberto 's prick which is stiff in the morning and which has just pissed . |
| 19 | Also notable was the number of fathers and sons out together , for perhaps three weeks with a tiny pack of basic provisions — a tent , survival knife and a fishing rod . |
| 20 | With a tiny staff ( currently seven , including secretaries ) , the CPS sponsored pioneering work on many of the ideas that came to define Thatcherism — privatisation , the ‘ enterprise culture ’ , a monetary explanation for inflation . |
| 21 | And with a tiny orchestra . |
| 22 | Sadie 's Dad had died at Gallipoli , and her mother had to make do with a tiny pension and the income of the shop . |
| 23 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 24 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 25 | Liam Murphy stood at one side of the grave with a tiny white casket in his arms , and on the other side , Kevin O'Neil carried the same sad load . |
| 26 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 27 | At the end of the garden were the two chicken houses , a run for daytime and to the right the sleeping quarters with a tiny window about a foot square . |
| 28 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 29 | A circuit with a tiny hidden crack may seem to function adequately , but that crack can become a pathway for corrosion which can cause failure of the device later on . |
| 30 | If you slowly unseal one of those self-seal envelopes in the dark , you will be rewarded with a tiny firework display . |