Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the white [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 2 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 3 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 4 | Thus the conspicuous colours of the Heteroptera Dysdercus , Pyrrhocoris , Oncopeltus and Phonoctonus are due to the red and yellow pterines erythropterin and xanthopterin , along with the white leucopterin . |
| 5 | It went round and round , down under the white water , and up again … under the water , and up . |
| 6 | Rocks rained down from the White Spider above as he belayed Kartoffel across the ice . |
| 7 | He stared down at the white damask tablecloth ; I sipped my wine and studied the faces of the others . |
| 8 | I stared down at the white face of the ratman . |
| 9 | He looked thoughtfully down at the white box , Mo 's coffin . |
| 10 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 11 | He snarled with fear and pointed the revolver down at the white blur of the face and fired — |
| 12 | She looked down at the white plastic loop that now bound her wrist to the brass rail on the table . |
| 13 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 14 | Thankfully we peeled off opposite the White Horse Farm Hotel , just before our muscles gave up on us . |
| 15 | Although the old colours ranged widely and included deep or light red , blue , ‘ grizzle ’ and all-white , nearly all had white finching and white on the belly and face and early selection was made for the famous white face in contrast to a deep , rich red body colour set off by the white brisket , belly , legs , shoulder stripe and tail switch . |
| 16 | ‘ My nickname was ‘ Rabbit ’ because of my prominent front teeth — so when we decided to get married , I instantly thought of dressing up as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland . |
| 17 | Within moments of setting off , she was lost from view , swallowed up in the white mist . |
| 18 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 19 | Under the stairs as leads up inside the White Tower , Black Will told us . |
| 20 | Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again . |
| 21 | He looked up at the white tower . |
| 22 | A consultative document in 1986 was followed up by the White Paper Promoting Better Health ( DHSS 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Look out for the white minibus outside York Station at 09.30 each day for free transport or tel. 644300 for more details . |
| 24 | In the United States the long dominant Democratic New Deal electoral coalition , which Franklin Roosevelt created out of the white south and the industrial working-class , has been in retreat . |
| 25 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 26 | Yellow men out of the white curtain of light . |
| 27 | Although , as we saw for Pakistanis in Rochdale , the culture of immigrants may separate them out from the white community , the children of immigrants will gradually become assimilated into white society , into the wider working class and some , by upward mobility , into the middle classes . |
| 28 | Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order . |
| 29 | The Government 's further proposals for market testing hospital ancillary services are set out in the White Paper ’ Competing for Quality ’ , and take account of representations received . |
| 30 | The Government 's policy remains as set out in the White Paper on higher education . |