Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water . |
| 2 | There is nostalgia , and fantasy — both wonderfully caught in Blake Morrison 's evocative ‘ Turf Moor , and Other Fields of Dreams ’ — and there is fiction filled with four-letter words . |
| 3 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 4 | She was alone in the world and owned nothing but the clothes in which she stood , a small attaché case filled with important things and a brown paper carrier bag containing shoes , stockings , and two crystal goblets carefully wrapped in a pair of white cotton knickers . |
| 5 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 6 | And there , across a field filled with long grass and butterflies , were the Syrian tanks . |
| 7 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 8 | Lock and a companion , Sandra Gregory , 27 , from Aberdeenshire , were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang airport on 6 February after police found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin in the woman 's body . |
| 9 | In one corner there was a sink and a gas ring , partly hidden by a screen , a pile of unwashed crockery on a small table and a red plastic bucket filled with empty tins , tea leaves and broken egg shells . |
| 10 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 11 | In arid country ( r conditions ) the weaver birds , small passerines related to sparrows , tend to be seasonally and sexually dimorphic , to breed polygynously ( one male mated with several females ) , and to have short or capricious breeding seasons . |
| 12 | ‘ Since you 're having Suzie 's trail pursued with such vigour , perhaps it would be sensible to stay on until my hotel reservation lapses . ’ |
| 13 | In a corner of the floor stood a saucer of milk which had long since turned to an unsavoury junket embellished with blue mould . |
| 14 | He placed the helmet squarely on the American boy 's head and glanced at Flavia Sherman , who had put on a wide-brimmed sun hat of white felt decorated with coloured ribbons . |
| 15 | The dye is green chysoidine powder mixed with methylated spirits , two tablespoons of dye to one litre of spirits . |
| 16 | More direct indications of function come with small groups of vessels having three solid or horizontally pierced lugs for suspension by a cord or thong ; these were designed primarily as household utensils . |
| 17 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 18 | Walk north-west to reach the B4418 and take the path going south-west until you reach the rock painted with white arrows . |
| 19 | Two women were trapped in the cabin , with only inches of air space , as the boat filled with icy water . |
| 20 | Mindless violence punctuated with live performances , Phallus In Wonderland falls somewhere between tacky Troma horror Tiswas and Top Of The Pops . |
| 21 | Each girl has a card filled with different tests which she has to pass . |
| 22 | Elisabeth 's face contorted as her mind filled with contradictory thoughts . |
| 23 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 24 | Lunch can be a sandwich filled with vegetarian cheese or a ready-made spread from a health food shop . |
| 25 | My partner 's Pipettes of Lemon Sole filled with succulent Prawns and coated with a light Indian Sauce came with the cutest garnish — little swans made from slices of lemon , while the helpings put me in mind of ‘ Nouvelle Cuisine meets Yorkshire portions ’ . |
| 26 | They look at each other , disappointment tinged with undisguised relief . |
| 27 | Anyone wanting to make a successful career as a professional musician must have an eternal sense of optimism tinged with gilt-edged charm and a business sense which would put Richard Branson in the shade . |
| 28 | Bob said that the average fraud committed with stolen cards amounts to between £1,500 and £1,800 . |
| 29 | The new FKW tool free modular system axe and hammer come with S-shaped shafts and should be lighter and better balanced than the original FKWs . |
| 30 | The term originated with automatic stacking-cranes but as fork-lift truck equipment progressively increased in height and other types of automatic systems emerged , the description extended to include such equipment . |