Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] wooden [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 2 | He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings . |
| 3 | So the baby was carried in a cheap wooden box to the churchyard at night . |
| 4 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 5 | From below his sternum to his waist , Quinn 's front was occupied by a flat wooden box that had once contained liqueur chocolates . |
| 6 | Pounding is done with a large wooden spoon . |
| 7 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 8 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 9 | He played on a toy wooden horse in the waiting room and Dr Alison Atkinson warned him when she spotted him trying a surgery door . |
| 10 | The lodge contained a large hall below and a banqueting room above , connected by a grand wooden stair . |
| 11 | It consisted of a two-inch-thick wooden board , its fifteen-by-eight-inch surface divided into two equal sections by an indicator running the length of the board with the figures one to ten printed on it . |
| 12 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 13 | Each of the round-topped arches is closed with a crude wooden door . |
| 14 | Passed to a maid , the penis remained in her custody for over half a century , lovingly preserved in a polished wooden box . |
| 15 | Christ writhed on a knobbly wooden crucifix next to a photograph of the Pope . |
| 16 | The suffering Christ himself writhed on a green wooden cross on one of the huge side pillars . |
| 17 | A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside . |
| 18 | You know inside a proper wooden door with a latch . |
| 19 | The 10 second prizes are five-piece Le Creuset saucepan sets , attractively displayed on a handy wooden storage rack . |
| 20 | ‘ There , ’ said Nicholson , pointing at a simple wooden cross . |
| 21 | As the room scheme in our main picture is based around a solid wooden table , it seems a shame to cover it with a tablecloth . |
| 22 | It was a high little barn on wooden legs , half-timbered and thatched , reached by a rickety wooden ladder . |
| 23 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 24 | Until he was nine years old , Endill Swift lived in a large wooden house at the edge of Duntinnie village . |
| 25 | This consists of a round wooden hoop across which a parchment head is stretched and to which loosely fitting metal plates , like tiny cymbals , are attached . |
| 26 | The poster had been pinned onto a large wooden board to the top of which had been affixed a very small Lebanese flag . |
| 27 | She was planning to get into university on demobilisation , to study history , and wherever she was posted she was accompanied by a large wooden crate of study books . |
| 28 | He indicated a rough path that led to a sturdy wooden cabin , and she dug her heels into the ground . |
| 29 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
| 30 | Two litre bottles of mineral water had been placed on a small wooden table with a hard-backed chair . |