Example sentences of "[noun] with [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 2 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 3 | The 80R is essentially a twin channel , 80 watt amplifier with a few departures from the norm that are all its own . |
| 4 | A shaded patio overlooks the garden , well planted with colourful racks of equipment and sails , and the garden leads straight onto the beach , mainly sand with a few patches of pebbles . |
| 5 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 6 | Highgate Cemetery displays crossed bats with a broken wicket , as well as a stone piano with a few bars of one of Puccini 's operas . |
| 7 | The development of immunoprophylaxis for group B streptococcal infections may ultimately result in the most appropriate intervention with the least effects on the neonatal microbial flora . |
| 8 | The Chairman opened a well-attended meeting with a few words about the gratifying growth and vigour shown by the Society in its first year . |
| 9 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 10 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 11 | Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish . |
| 12 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 13 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 14 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 15 | To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it . |
| 16 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 17 | If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards ! |
| 18 | Hard boil your eggs with a few drops of pink dye or coffee grains to make them skin-coloured . |
| 19 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 20 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 21 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 22 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 23 | For example , the analysis of stylistic details of the representation on a coin , such as the treatment of the hair or the eye , and its comparison with the same features in other well-dated art forms such as vase painting or sculpture , should enable a date to be applied to a coin series , particularly in a period of rapid stylistic change in the arts ( such as early Greece ) . |
| 24 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 25 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
| 26 | Season with a few drops of lemon juice and a sprinkling of cayenne pepper . |
| 27 | Pains prevented , given a value in accordance with the same dimensions of intensity , duration , probability , extent count along with pleasures produced , in favour of an action , while pleasures prevented , count along with the pains produced , against it . |
| 28 | RCO had tried to brighten up their corner of the third floor with a few gallons of inexpensive paint . |
| 29 | Bernice dumped the remaining food on the floor with a few sweeps of her hand and kicked it under the rubber skirts of the machine . |
| 30 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |