Example sentences of "cover with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spread the courgette mixture on top , cover with tomatoes and cheese , and sprinkle over the chopped thyme . |
| 2 | In living rooms , you 'll probably have carpet unless you want a timber floor that you can cover with rugs . |
| 3 | Some vegetables , like beetroot , carrot , endive and winter lettuce varieties , should be sown now , but covered with cloches later to protect them to maturity . |
| 4 | Take out any rocks , decor , heater ( switch off first ) etc covered with algae , and scrub them in hot water with a stiff brush . |
| 5 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 6 | I still remember the feeling of hopelessness as I sat and looked at a board covered with arrows and lines , the words ‘ tacking ’ , ‘ rigging ’ , ‘ wind direction ’ and ‘ points of sailing ’ floating around in my head . |
| 7 | The walls are covered with posters illustrative of various radical causes — nuclear disarmament , women 's liberation , the protection of whales — and a large reproduction of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's painting , ‘ The Lady of Shalott ’ , which might seem incongruous unless you have heard Robyn expound its iconic significance as a matrix of male stereotypes of the feminine . |
| 8 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 9 | The woman 's face was covered with shreds of baby as she fell on the road . |
| 10 | With sufficient strength left , my legs bleeding and covered with burns , I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis , six kilometres from St Pierre . |
| 11 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 12 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 13 | Except that in the capital city of Palestine , a city covered with soldiers , it was possible to have Arab riots in which six Jews were slain and no soldiers around to prevent it . |
| 14 | The desk was covered with copies of his propaganda news-sheet , and several colourfully produced pamphlets . |
| 15 | Not that there was much furniture in the room : a table , covered with copies of Motor Cycle News , two dining chairs , a bed with a duvet cover illustrating a big Honda bike and a chest of drawers with a Midi stereo cassette unit on it . |
| 16 | Duck rather more rufous than duck eider , but otherwise very hard to distinguish except by larger proportion of bill covered with feathers , especially at sides ; bare pan not extending right back past eye , as with Eider . |
| 17 | As the body is laid bare of garments so it is covered with barriers to nudity such as ‘ exoticism ’ in the form of furs , fans , feathers , etc . |
| 18 | In 1914 , this vehicle was covered with slogans and coloured lamps for use in a recruitment campaign ( see Chapter 2 ) and toured the system . |
| 19 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 20 | Alcalá Galiano , as an old man , remembered the terror of the middle-class citizens as the ragged ‘ patriots ’ of the Valencian army , their hats covered with relics , marched into Madrid ; in Cadiz only the Capuchins could disarm the rioters who , after murdering the Governor , had seized the Arsenal . |
| 21 | The sideboard in the M's farm living room was covered with Mothers Day cards , but on that day none of them were from Mrs M 's own two sons . |
| 22 | Small tables , covered with ornaments and books , and an antique armchair and matching footstool in green velvet and another in light brown all add to the charm of the room . |
| 23 | He saw that Jupiter had moons and he saw that the surface of the earth 's moon was covered with mountains and craters . |
| 24 | Poindexter , although he had cautioned North not to ‘ talk in plain language ’ , confessed that he had never used the three-by-five cards covered with codes that North had given him ; he just carried them in his briefcase . |
| 25 | In the Procession Fresco , the fabrics worn by the Minoans were painstakingly covered with grids , apparently marked into the soft plaster with taut string ; the resulting grid lines were used by the fresco painters to construct detailed textile patterns ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 27 | The result was the duck decoy , consisting of an artificial pool with pipes leading off which were covered with nets and lined with screens . |
| 28 | The rudder felt as if it were covered with barnacles , and the engine sounded old and tired , but there was no reason for grounding the plane . |
| 29 | A great big grubby notice pinned to the wall , covered with signs . |
| 30 | At the end on the left was a stick-and-ball field , a polo field covered with gulls , paddocks full of polished horses , then a group of red modern buildings . |