Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] white " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archaeology proposal came in with a standard white , upper-class male name attached to it , a safe BBC voice , and I said , ‘ Lovely idea , ca n't stand the presenter . |
| 2 | When he came out into the bright white daylight he had a shock . |
| 3 | Then , late in the evening , my new friend turned up with a little white pill for each of us . |
| 4 | Robyn gazed up at the billowing white clouds and a longing for Luke 's touch , unlike anything she had ever felt before , overwhelmed her completely — her whole being ached with the desire to be held in his arms , to feel the strength and comfort and warmth of his body close to hers . |
| 5 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 6 | As he walked out into the silent white world Michael was glad of the freezing cold that seemed to cut down into his lungs . |
| 7 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 8 | She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin . |
| 9 | She looked down at the spotless white surface of the table . |
| 10 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
| 11 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 12 | She looked out over the smudged white landscape of Regent 's Park , then peered at the road below . |
| 13 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 14 | Guy 's eyes were screened by the Raybans as they dropped anchor off a deserted palm-fringed bay , and rowed over to a deserted white crescent of sand to unload the picnic hamper . |
| 15 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 16 | She recognized curry , but not the strange things which accompanied it , a pale beige paste with a dusty yet lemony flavour , and bits of cucumber chopped up in a bitter white sauce . |
| 17 | Shannon slept badly that night , haunted by dreams of great swirling snowflakes and a hawk-faced man who loomed out of the deadly white mass with fury in his eyes . |