Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [adj] white [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year I found a pure white form with black veins . |
| 2 | I hold the little white bottle . |
| 3 | As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger . |
| 4 | I opened the innocent white snuff-box . |
| 5 | I understand the Great White Chief wants to see me . ’ |
| 6 | When I got level with the Bunker I banked inland , slowing as I hit the soft white sand further up the beach . |
| 7 | Erm , I saw a few white hats but erm I tried a couple on , I thought one would have suited me , but it did n't . |
| 8 | Most of my school mates were black , though I had a few white ones . |
| 9 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 10 | ‘ Ricotta , ’ he explained , opening the bag for them to inspect the fluffy white mound with the whey still running out of the cheese paper . |
| 11 | Industrial policy was effectively hijacked from the Department of Industry to No. 10 and the Cabinet 's Public Enterprise Committee , which produced the 1974 White Paper on the Regeneration of Industry with its watered-down National Enterprise Board and voluntary planning agreements . |
| 12 | Shrugging out of the bronze jacket which covered a sandwashed white silk shirt and gabardine trousers , Ashley resettled herself in her seat . |
| 13 | For those of us with non-pedigree black moggies which sprout a few white hairs , it is comforting to think of their special markings not as some kind of mongrel flaw but instead as a vital and valuable relic of earlier days in the feline history of Europe . |
| 14 | Your cheeks like damask , the soft white loveliness of your breasts , leading to the firm dark mountain peaks of your , Laura , now I 'm dreading which part of my body he will choose next on which to turn the great white beam of his fucking sincerity . |
| 15 | The famous Stanglwirt Hotel offers horse riding the hotel has a Lippizaner stud which sires the famous white horses used at the Spanish riding school in Vienna . |
| 16 | My prize posession used to be a key-ring which had a small white book on the end . |
| 17 | She draped a plain white shawl round her shoulders , and walked slowly to the farm . |
| 18 | With a finger she traced a thin white line . |
| 19 | She wears an enormous white sweatshirt so bulky that she could have had it from Ludo . |
| 20 | She indicated the huge white cut loaf on the dresser and the half empty milk bottle beside it . |
| 21 | Contentment filled her and she watched the high white clouds . |
| 22 | She wore a high-necked white nightdress . |
| 23 | Over her frock she wore a spotless white apron decorated with lace ; it had a little white top , similarly adorned , and perched on McAllister 's lustrous blue-black curls was an elaborate white cap , lace-trimmed , with long white streamers . |
| 24 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 25 | She wore a short white cotton dress and flat sandals , her long legs tanned to a rich golden-brown . |
| 26 | Cut into the sultry gold of his skin she saw a thin white line which zigzagged down from beside his eye , along his cheekbone , to his jaw . |
| 27 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 28 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 29 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 30 | She remembered the great white whale that had taken her leg , and the pistol ball that had claimed her eye , and a hundred other wounds and scars beside . |