Example sentences of "[adj] gold " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slipped on a rigid gold bracelet once he was back in the dressing room and Dominic pulled a curtain clear of a radiator to get more heat into the place . |
| 2 | Large amounts of mercury are mixed with the crushed gold bearing rock , and are agitated in a concrete mixture . |
| 3 | And tonight , oh my elegant darling , your skirt is a rainbow of shimmering gold and mauve and tan and cerise . |
| 4 | She pulled a shimmering gold evening dress out of a box and held it in front of her , gazing into the long mirror as if she loved the combination of woman and gown . |
| 5 | She twirls a shimmering gold swan studded with imitation pearls ‘ for her dressing table ’ . |
| 6 | Ellen wore a skin-tight gold dress with black glittery trimmings . |
| 7 | He was wearing a pale-blue safari-style jacket , belted at the last hole , short-sleeved to display the diamond-faced gold Rolex worn on one beefy wrist . |
| 8 | The floor was of polished cedar wood and I glanced round enviously at the stools covered with red satin and silver tassels : ‘ T.C. ’ , Wolsey 's personal monogram , was everywhere , sometimes a foot high in carved gold . |
| 9 | Metropolitan opens new showcase for Pre-Columbian gold |
| 10 | In 1991 , Jan Mitchell gave the Metropolitan Museum of Art a hoard of Pre-Columbian gold from Columbia , Peru , Costa Rica , Panama and Ecuador that experts estimate to be worth more than $3 million . |
| 11 | This month the collection goes on permanent display in the South American Gallery of the Rockefeller Wing , integrated with the Pre-Columbian gold donated by Alice K. Bache ( 1966 ) and Nelson Rockefeller ( 1979 ) . |
| 12 | The new installation , sponsored by Mitchell and dubbed the Jan Mitchell Treasury , contains some 225 artifacts that constitute the preeminent pan-cultural display of Pre-Columbian gold outside Latin America . |
| 13 | He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant , fabled gold . |
| 14 | The virgin saint was leading the dragon on a slim gold chain across a field of flowers towards a distant and elaborate city ; she had a thin white face and an expression of nonchalance , almost tedium . |
| 15 | Sweetman paused again , this time to light a long pale blue cigarette with a slim gold lighter . |
| 16 | Roquelaure took a Gitane from a slim gold case and lit it . |
| 17 | On her left hand she still wore a slim gold band — a wedding ring , I assume , from her second husband , Baron Michael de Stempel , currently serving four years for fraud , along with the Baroness 's two children by her first husband Simon Dale , Georgia Sophia ( serving 30 months ) and Xenophon Marcus ( eighteen months ) . |
| 18 | Johnny fished in his trouser pocket for a somewhat battered packet of cigarettes and a slim gold lighter . |
| 19 | Maurin looked at his slim gold wrist watch . |
| 20 | He looked at his slim gold wrist-watch and Claudia shook her head at Myra 's obvious intention of telling him that Dana did exist . |
| 21 | Then , as the waitress arrived with Kirsty 's and Shiona 's orders , he glanced at the slim gold watch at his wrist . |
| 22 | To her relief the slim gold band encircled her wrist . |
| 23 | Which means , ’ he added , glancing quickly down at the slim gold watch on his wrist , ‘ I want you to pack a suitcase as quickly as possible , because we have very little time in which to catch the plane . ’ |
| 24 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 25 | Those light eyes rested on her as if he was making a mental sketch of her face ; then he glanced at the slim gold watch on his wrist . |
| 26 | Earlier results , however from an experiment 2300 m deep in the Kolar Gold Fields near Bangalore in India suggested that the proton is unstable , with a lifetime of 7.5 X 10 30 years . |
| 27 | This accusation can not be levelled at Phoenix 2000 , a British floating pellet manufactured by Notts-based Gold Line Feeds and distributed by Remanoid . |
| 28 | Most of them went into the newsagent 's and the bar to buy the Sunday edition of the Nazione and a tray of cakes wrapped with gold and white paper and curly gold ribbons . |
| 29 | Not a dull bit of corroded bronze , but fire-new gold . |
| 30 | ‘ What happened to the romantic dreaming about sunken ships and old buried gold ? ’ |