Example sentences of "blue and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 2 | It was illuminated predominantly in bars of intersecting blue and crimson . |
| 3 | The next day was the big event and I wore a nice new dress in blue and fawn which I bought from Shepherd 's in Barnard Castle . |
| 4 | The shoes were put in as a simple outline drawing in pencil and the background spaces around them were painted with a mixture of cerulean blue and titanium white . |
| 5 | Now here on the left London is beginning to appear beyond the rooftops , lying wide and blue and docile at my feet . |
| 6 | If you had blue and dad had brown . |
| 7 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 8 | The tube burnt blue and orange transforming the paper into a black filigree . |
| 9 | The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green |
| 10 | The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green |
| 11 | Wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green were folded back against the walls to show thick , beautifully patterned lace at the windows . |
| 12 | Blue and green for instance , would seem to offer a more precise location for the meaning of a colour word like turquoise than red and yellow would . |
| 13 | A clearer red , blue and green are found in the traces of painting on architectural members , and were no doubt in the wall-painter 's palette , but there is no evidence for much mixing of colours and some for a deliberate restriction of choice . |
| 14 | GUIL : " The colours red , blue and green are real . |
| 15 | Purchased during that mad shopping trip at Bloomingdales , the minuscule garment in watery shades of blue and green had been by far the most decent item among the swimwear items bought for her by Ross . |
| 16 | A biting blue and chrome machine comes into view . |
| 17 | Time was no other colour but blue , since distances were blue and water too . |
| 18 | Similarly , if a 16 colour bit image file format refers to red , green , blue and intensity planes , this will only be true of the default palette settings . |
| 19 | For a low-growing , striking herbaceous colour scheme , try a blue and gold theme with lemon balm , forget-me-nots , creamy violas and the gorgeous ice-blue Veronica gentianoides . |
| 20 | The colour combinations are very fresh and new : cornflower blue , guava and lime ; ; azure , emerald and purple ; and navy , mid blue and gold which complement the ‘ core ’ shades of white , black , grey and ecru . |
| 21 | Right : Part of a nine-tile panel design of daffodils , in black , blue and gold , Panel-Accent Orpheus , from Royal Dutch Sphinx , can be used as a feature in bathroom , hall , or even the bedroom |
| 22 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 23 | One in particular , about a metre high , pale lemon in colour , was ornamented with neo-classical bandings in blue and gold . |
| 24 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 25 | We eat our meal watching a hundred canoes drift downstream into a blue and gold sunset , to their villages five miles across the river . |
| 26 | The duller buildings blended with the desert , but others shone pink , blue and gold , edged with ornamental plasterwork in white . |
| 27 | By the time Scott had changed his blue Jersey for something less like the blue and gold of his colleagues , the ten minutes ' grace had been swallowed up . |
| 28 | ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold . |
| 29 | Dad lay below , stretched out under a heavy cloth of blue and gold . |
| 30 | At the Royal Mile Whiskies shop there 's a cannily-timed Scotch malt at £27.70 , sporting the Royal Blue and gold stars of the EC flag . |