Example sentences of "with pictures [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were told by English boys that reception classes were ‘ like Junior schools with pictures on the walls ’ and that the work done in them was not really serious . |
| 3 | Someone once gave me ever such a lovely little china cup when you was born , with pictures on it . |
| 4 | Once there 's a danger he might decide to eat the picture and choke , stick posters ( or wrapping paper with pictures on ) and family photos around the room . |
| 5 | Yeah there 's loads of nice little houses round there 's another one round here with pictures on the walls somewhere . |
| 6 | Do you want use the ones that make the , use dominoes with pictures on it ? |
| 7 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 8 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
| 9 | She also brought him seeds with pictures of the flowers on the packets . |
| 10 | ‘ There is obviously a consensus that , generally speaking , it is useful not to work in an environment with pictures of naked women , ’ said a committee spokeswoman yesterday . |
| 11 | This compares what the missile sees through a light-sensitive sensor in its nose with pictures of the target stored in its memory . |
| 12 | His desk is rimmed with pictures of prominent people — a senator , a Saudi prince , an ambassador — patients for whom he has retarded death by cancer . |
| 13 | He did n't need help placing them — the police have so many interesting in-house magazines with pictures of stolen objets d'art and jokes and stories in the back . |
| 14 | SOFT drinks giant PepsiCo has adorned the front cover of its annual report with pictures of cute white bunnies . |
| 15 | Mr Ashdown , who loves to tell us that his campaign alone concentrates on ‘ the real issues ’ , had filled the entire broadcast with pictures of himself . |
| 16 | The cafe was divided up by glass partitions , engraved with pictures of propeller -driven aeroplanes emerging from gigantic cloud banks , or simply rays of sunlight darting here and everywhere , right up to the edge of the bevelled glass . |
| 17 | He was wearing khaki dungarees about three sizes too big for him and a boy 's shirt with pictures of Mickey Mouse printed across the front . |
| 18 | You also leave these people to a rail of hideous nylon tights , with pictures of lions and words like ‘ climb ’ in block capitals transferred inexpertly on to the fabric . |
| 19 | They usually begin with pictures of the occupations of the different months , followed by passages from the Gospels and the liturgical hours from Matins ( and Lauds ) to Vespers and Compline , and completed by miniatures of the life of the Virgin . |
| 20 | She 'd talked about London a lot when she was little and she used to get books out of the library with pictures of Westminster Abbey and all the sights . |
| 21 | Flowers such as the ox-eyed daisy , poppies , lords and ladies , stitchwort , speedwell , herb Robert , white yarrow and blackberry toad flax were shown along with pictures of dew-laden spiders ' webs draped on flowers . |
| 22 | And Lake District shots , intercut with pictures of Jobcentres … ’ |
| 23 | It was large , square , sunny , and adorned with pictures of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and his French counterpart Emile Zola , giving an air of dignity and an atmosphere of appreciation of the arts , specifically literature . |
| 24 | Visitors to its New York headquarters were confronted with pictures of both domestic animals and livestock all discreetly shielding their private parts with a variety of strange garments . |
| 25 | The book was filled with pictures of a marmalade coloured cat . |
| 26 | Afterwards , each of the 100 guests at the £4,000 lunch was given a small album filled with pictures of the couple smiling happily with their sons . |
| 27 | His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design . |
| 28 | In Romania from the late 1970s , the ubiquitous portraits of Nicolae Ceauşescu increasingly came to be replaced or to share prominence with pictures of the couple together . |
| 29 | They went through a side door ; there was a smell of baking , a warm kitchen smell through the corridors , then a smell of polish on the big stairway , and the wide dark hall hung with pictures of Mother Foundress and Our Lady , and lit only by the Sacred Heart lamp . |
| 30 | A LOVESICK Frenchwoman plastered a town with pictures of her English sweetheart only to discover he was married . |