Example sentences of "black [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waited until Athelstan had put the black pouch back into the tabernacle and Crim had taken his penny and fled like the wind , before putting the cat down and approaching Athelstan . |
| 2 | Some items were finished in black lacquer , often with a fern or flower decoration . |
| 3 | YAMAHA YSG guitar , translucent black lacquer , gold hardware , straplocks and case , superb instrument , £295 ono . |
| 4 | The Korean sale will feature a 14th/15th-century table with floral scroll , black lacquer with mother-of-pearl and wire inlay ( est. $300,000–400,000 ; £196,900–261,000 ) . |
| 5 | I remember an all-black room I saw years ago which has always stuck in my mind : black velvet walls , black carpet , ebony table and chairs , black lacquer side table . |
| 6 | Two of the black lacquer cabinets had been opened and china lay in little piles outside them on the carpet . |
| 7 | Out of these shows have come successes such as The 291 Club , which aspires to the status of America 's Live At The Apollo ; comedians Curtis and Ishmael , hosts of Paramount City ; and The Real McCoy , TV 's black sketch show . |
| 8 | International representations in athletics came in abundance with Ainsley Bennett , Mike MacFarlane and Daley Thompson and football went through a veritable upsurge in the 1978–9 season with the likes of Viv Anderson , Laurie Cunningham , Cyrille Regis , Garry Thompson providing the vanguard of a train of black first-division players . |
| 9 | The colour range used to be wide , as in other Scottish cattle , including red-and-white , solid red , dun , dun-and-white , yellow , solid black , blue , grey , grey-and-white , brown-and-white , brindle , white with blue or black on the neck , black riggit ( finchback ) , brockle-faced and even belted . |
| 10 | Sequel to Black Trillium , only with a solo author . |
| 11 | The 550C solves this by printing colour from the tri-colour cartridge , and black from the black cartridge . |
| 12 | It 's a liberal epic in the tradition of The Mission and Black Robe , about Christian insensitivity towards indigenous people . |
| 13 | In front of him , wearing a black robe , stood a huge man with a face like a ploughed field . |
| 14 | Corbett turned to see a tall , lank , white-haired man in a black robe standing in front of their horses . |
| 15 | CANADIAN Lothaire Bluteau , star of the recent epic Black Robe , first made his mark in the superb satire Jesus Of Montreal . |
| 16 | This room has a pile of 15 skeletons , each wrapped in a black robe and each clutching a dagger in one bony hand . |
| 17 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 18 | Before the adventurers can really take in this chamber , a skeletal figure clad in a tatty , filth-encrusted black robe standing not far from the door eagerly holds out its hands to them , one of which holds a hot branding iron . |
| 19 | His belted black robe was appliquéd with glaring white death 's heads . |
| 20 | Lord Voronov-Vaux followed bare-footed , adjusting a black robe on which dragons of seemingly purple hue writhed at the edge of visibility . |
| 21 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 22 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 23 | How dare this friar , this bare-arsed Dominican in his dusty black robe and shoddy leather sandals , sit and lecture him , Chief Justice of the realm ! |
| 24 | The shrinking of daylight , the burgeoning triumph of black Chaos and night . |
| 25 | He stared at the sooty-looking ball of black chaos that was her hair , wanting her , terrified of her . |
| 26 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 27 | It had not been taken seriously by MPs or press and the Black case was discredited by being placed alongside the earlier claim . |
| 28 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 29 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 30 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |