Example sentences of "black [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purple and black bruises abounded . |
| 2 | Six black heavies hem us in , want to know why we are snooping . |
| 3 | Stark black fingers reach up to the sky , |
| 4 | An obvious difference is that one who is enjoying the sight of the gibbons will be intensely aware of their small black faces and long black fingers showing up against white fur , of their swift agile leaps and the poise of their immensely long arms at the moments when they balance perfectly still . |
| 5 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 6 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 7 | The black birds struggled out , a thousand of them , bright-beaked , anxious to find carrion . |
| 8 | Two kingdoms come together in the place … nothing can keep them apart … black birds roosting in the turret … sing Come and play come and play some body up here want play with you … |
| 9 | Putrid black parches occur in the sand and hydrogen sulphide may be produced which is fatal to marine organisms . |
| 10 | The presidents of the neighbouring black states denounced South African ’ genocide ’ . |
| 11 | His irreverent view of black states had already been comically revealed in Black Mischief ( 1932 ) ; and as a convert to Rome in 1930 he watched in 1936 , and without regret , the overthrow of a Spanish Republic violently intolerant of a Church he loved . |
| 12 | It stretches from the endless beaches of the Costa del Sol and the Costa de la Luz , to the snowy peaks of the sierras and great plains where the fierce black bulls graze . |
| 13 | On either side of the grate were black ovens embossed with the maker 's name . |
| 14 | It 's from live events , not TV , that today 's black comics have emerged . |
| 15 | This effectively ruled out the overwhelming majority of black boxers based in Britain . |
| 16 | Stories such as these are more regular in the USA where , according to Nathan Hare , black boxers begin with visions of wealth and glamour but complete their careers ‘ dissatisfied now with their present lot ’ . |
| 17 | Travelling with Jackson when he left the USA was perhaps the most awesome of all black boxers to come to England . |
| 18 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 19 | Banana cockroaches , scorpions and black widows seem to generate the highest media interest , but it is undoubtedly the ticks , beetles and flies which have more significance for health and agricultural concerns . |
| 20 | Imagery relating to ‘ floods ’ of immigrants and references to crime ‘ breeding ’ in Black ghettos became commonplace . |
| 21 | When I spoke to him , Hall said the great thing about his show was that he let black artists speak for themselves , in their own voices . |
| 22 | Whatever it was that Bob Dylan , the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had done , a lot of black artists wanted the freedom to follow . |
| 23 | A group identity , the way they say black beetles do ? |
| 24 | Jean-Claude 's expression soured in the presence of Jewish men in black alpaca coats down to their ankles , and wide-brimmed black hats garnished with fur , from which long twists of black hair hung in curls . |
| 25 | The black claws go clutching |
| 26 | With a great heave the black claws ripped away Bill 's scalp , his face split from top to bottom revealing the three demonic masks of Hades rising from within . |
| 27 | She winced as long black claws met in the flesh above her elbow . |
| 28 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 29 | Black prisoners had fewer previous convictions than white prisoners sentenced for the same type of offence and were less likely to be granted bail . |
| 30 | He also captured tradesmen posing nonchalantly outside their stores and ragged black labourers awaiting hire to unload steamboats . |