Example sentences of "[pron] with a white " in BNC.
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| 1 | More professionally , you can lighten them to that bleached-bone look by staining them with a white stain , thinned down with fifty percent white spirit . |
| 2 | He took a deep draught , and wiped his brow with the back of his hand , taking the spectacles off to polish them with a white handkerchief . |
| 3 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 4 | Almost always anyone with a white coat in a film is messing about with retorts , pouring liquids into flasks and changing the colour of the contents . |
| 5 | Shanti had very little opportunity to meet other coloured children in the town where we lived then , but when she was three years old , a family came to live near us with a white mother and a Ugandan father , and she became very friendly with the five children . |