Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] white [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 2 | Beta , at a distance of 78 light-years , is of special note because it seems to be associated with material which could possibly indicate a planetary system , and has actually been photographed from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile , though to the ordinary observer Beta looks like a normal white star . |
| 3 | Polly 's relief at the interruption must have made her smile of thanks warmer than she realised , for the lumbering bear of a man , swathed in a spotless white apron from his ripple of stubbled chins to the turn-ups of his elephantine trousers , beamed back . |
| 4 | Added to a simple white sauce , they make a good accompaniment to plain meats such as boiled bacon . |
| 5 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 6 | I followed his directions and down a narrow street came to a cul-de-sac dominated by a large white house with a portico over the front door . |
| 7 | In the Grevy 's zebra there is a bold black central stripe surrounded by a bleached-out white area . |
| 8 | A more advanced technique involves camouflaging the real eye while at the same time making the false eye truly spectacular , with a huge black ‘ pupil ’ surrounded by a bright white eye-ring . |
| 9 | Rory laughed , just as his attention was caught by a little white blossom lying on the road surface in front of them . |
| 10 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 11 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 12 | You can overtake on a double white line . |
| 13 | ( To find a dipper , look for a bobbing white shirt front . ) |
| 14 | He turned towards a tall white door and opened it , waiting with very studied politeness for her to approach , his eyes roaming over her sardonically until she blushed to the roots of her hair . |
| 15 | From the rickety bridge I looked upwards to the waterfall , perhaps fifty feet above us ; at the spot where it vanished into ferns and flowers it was frothing like a diaphanous white ball gown . |
| 16 | Just like the fairy tale about the ugly duckling turning into a lovely white swan , butterflies have a similar story . |
| 17 | From the edge of the village the whole valley — the fields , the growing crops , the river — had been transformed into a steaming white nether-world . |
| 18 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 19 | Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband . |
| 20 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 21 | As the novel approaches its end , spaces between its verbal segments grow larger and larger until the text finally recedes into a blank white page . |
| 22 | Fortunately the disease can be treated with a proprietary white spot cure . |
| 23 | ‘ Not as much as I 'd like to , lady , ’ he retorted grimly , his lips thinning to a cruel white line . |
| 24 | Vron lying with back arched and legs raised on a tousled white carpet . |
| 25 | The same dull green carpet , two beds with carved green satin headboards , the light from the busy street filtered by a thick white muslin curtain . |
| 26 | She still had the facial contours of childhood , with a round chin and big-pupilled eyes : also chestnut hair in abundance and a growing figure hidden within a bulky white top with a pink glittering pop-slogan on the front , the badge of youth . |
| 27 | London went mad ; everyone flocked to hear her , to see her , so young , so seemingly innocent yet passionate , with her long brown hair hanging down her back beneath the small round cap , her slight frame clad in a simple white gown which fell straight to the boards . |
| 28 | ‘ You can leave after lunch , ’ he said flatly , and then paused , frowning as he pulled out a vast painting of Rachel lying on a blazing sunlit beach , her slender body clad in a brief white bikini , her face young and lovely . |
| 29 | We lived in part of a school my father ran , which was situated in a large white house outside Arundel , Sussex , on the edge of the South Downs . |
| 30 | The kit consists of a special white foam washer , a cone-shaped insert and a poly washer . |