Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smooth 'd up his Face and with a leering Eye |
| 2 | With a tinkling sound , the spring emptied into a shower basin at the edge of the jungle . |
| 3 | A copy of the morning paper was lying on his tooled leather desk top ; he pushed it across to Tom , stabbing at the story with a manicured index finger . |
| 4 | Jane scratched the side of her nose with a manicured fingernail . |
| 5 | Wrapping her sable coat close about her slender form , Countess Dominique de Borchgrave slides into the driver 's seat of the BMW 325i convertible and , with a manicured finger , presses the button to lower the electric roof . |
| 6 | Two types , one with a pecking bird and one with a facing head , have been found in relatively large numbers in the excavations at Southampton and only rarely elsewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , my dear , dear love , it is , ’ he said with a tiny smile on his lips . |
| 8 | She savoured the prospect with a tiny smile — half rueful , half triumphant — which widened into greeting as Sam introduced his wife , Anna , and Merrill put her private plans firmly into the background . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ she denied with a tiny smile . |
| 10 | She packed Rolling Stones and Ray Charles into a leather case , along with a tiny bottle of Chanel and a selected volume of Beat poetry , and she came to us . |
| 11 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 12 | With a tiny frown of resentment she rolled over again , took a breath and dived soundlessly to swim below the surface for one final lap . |
| 13 | With a tiny shudder he passed the hard knot of tension from him then looked up again , a faint smile at the corners of his mouth . |
| 14 | The word ‘ kids ’ ended with a tiny hiss and the tip of his tongue flicked out between his teeth . |
| 15 | Windows are flower-curtained to match , and echoed with a tiny flower design in the carpet . |
| 16 | It was all very cottagey , the uneven walls papered with a tiny flower pattern and all filled with an odd green light reflected in from the hillside that sloped up just outside the window . |
| 17 | Opinions about whether the reports should be made public in future were almost evenly divided , with a tiny majority ( 52 per cent ) against . |
| 18 | At the end of the garden were the two chicken houses , a run for daytime and to the right the sleeping quarters with a tiny window about a foot square . |
| 19 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 20 | The guest bedroom is a small room with a tiny window , and it has nothing in it but a single bed , a lamp on a nightstand and Jesus hanging , plain and formidable , above the bed , I sit above the covers , staring into space . |
| 21 | INSECTS perform highly sophisticated visual tasks with a tiny brain . |
| 22 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 23 | With a tiny sigh she crossed the room towards him and he drew her on to his lap , his arms tight about her . |
| 24 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 25 | All his beers have a tempting hop resin aroma , balanced by pale and crystal malts , with a tiny proportion of chocolate malt . |
| 26 | The Third was a highbrow station , with a tiny proportion of the audience . |
| 27 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 28 | And with a tiny orchestra . |
| 29 | the [ priest 's ] sprinkler is always moist with a tiny droplet , like Alberto 's prick which is stiff in the morning and which has just pissed . |
| 30 | With a tiny exclamation of annoyance she came to a halt , easing the cuff of her jacket . |