Example sentences of "with a white " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first thing I learned about nutrition as a nurse was that white food — fish and potatoes , for example — on white plates , with a white parsley sauce is unappetising purely because of its boring appearance . |
| 2 | Scottie is mainly black , with a white chest and white ankle socks on black legs . |
| 3 | as if to point out that they were not entirely alone , a man with a white terrier came towards them from behind the sandhills . |
| 4 | There 's this bloke with a white coat on and this bag of bread , feeding the birds . |
| 5 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 6 | Bucephalus was a tall , black Arabian stallion with a white star . |
| 7 | Next day , her owner , in fear and trepidation , tried saddling her up again , but this time with a white saddlecloth . |
| 8 | Back in the studio , he would cover his canvas with a white ground , over which he would make a precise underdrawing in sepia . |
| 9 | At dawn , a six-man truce party under Vicious Weasel ( Wettiwetti Howlis ) rode forward with a white flag . |
| 10 | Bright and bold , almost brash , large flowers with a white star or cross on a vivid orange background . |
| 11 | Black bag with a white figure one painted on it . ’ |
| 12 | The four terminals from the top are : Black with a white tracer , white , black with a white tracer and black . |
| 13 | The four terminals from the top are : Black with a white tracer , white , black with a white tracer and black . |
| 14 | George looked with distaste at the man sitting on Gerrard 's other side , at the shining dapper head , the pin-striped suit with a white carnation in the buttonhole , and the sleek self-satisfied smirk on his face , and thought , He 's enjoying this , pompous bastard . |
| 15 | A blimp-style balloon with a white elephant on the side hovered in the sky above the crowd . |
| 16 | It was made of concrete and had a beautiful garden with a white hibiscus bush and one small , resinously scented tree . |
| 17 | Sometimes it is completely green with emerald or white spots , or it can be yellowish-green with a white band running from eye to tail , or even orange or wine-red with white stripes and spots and no green at all . |
| 18 | The door was opened almost immediately by a maid dressed in black with a white apron . |
| 19 | Sapphire is murdered after consummating her relationship with a White student ; in A Taste of Honey , Jimmy is despatched once he has had sexual relations with Jo , never to be seen again ; in Flame in the Streets Gaby Gomez is badly burned ; in the same film Peter Lincoln manages to escape ‘ punishment ’ , other than a humiliating first encounter with his White fiancèe 's father , Jacko , but then the progression of the narrative is frozen before closure . |
| 20 | Originally many cattle in Ayrshire were black with a white stripe on the back and white flanks and faces , and were of the Highland or Galloway type , but these were locally displaced by Dutch cattle imported between 1750 and 1780 , with ( it is rumoured ) a few Alderneys coming into Scotland in 1756 . |
| 21 | Local farmers preferred black or dark brindled animals in both breeds and some said that the Galloway had originally been a horned black animal with touches of white , or perhaps brindle with a white dorsal stripe and occasionally belted . |
| 22 | The White Galloway is a prepotent colour variety with a white coat and coloured points of black , dun or red inside the ears and on the muzzle , eyelashes , knees and feet , sometimes with coloured freckles on the shoulders and sides . |
| 23 | In 1926 breeders had managed to set some standards and formed a society , opening a herdbook for the Irish Moiled in that year , and by 1929 they had decided that the preferred colouring should be red or roan with a white dorsal line , white tail and underline and white udder . |
| 24 | The immediately recognisable colouring is black with a white head and belly , though 5 per cent are red rather than black . |
| 25 | The coat used to be described as tricoloured ( flaxen , white and brindle ) and is black and dark reddish brown , brindled and spotted on white , with a white brockle face which has coloured ‘ spectacles ’ around the eyes . |
| 26 | A photograph of Hitler stared benignly over a table spread with a white cloth . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A small , happy man with a white beard , he always wore the traditional grocers ' apron . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Professor Sharp points out that the English bird with a white tail is called a wheatear . |