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 | I suggest starting with a cheaper jacket until you get hooked — and you can always wear it at weekends afterwards . |
| 7 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 8 | They are to be replaced with a cheaper type of brick to be covered in a special layer and painted in a new light colour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Klaus , who is also the finance minister , has used the Forum 's regional activists as a base to gain backing for his own conception — a right-of-centre party with a stricter line of command . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , my dear , dear love , it is , ’ he said with a tiny smile on his lips . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ she denied with a tiny smile . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The word ‘ kids ’ ended with a tiny hiss and the tip of his tongue flicked out between his teeth . |
| 19 | Windows are flower-curtained to match , and echoed with a tiny flower design in the carpet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Opinions about whether the reports should be made public in future were almost evenly divided , with a tiny majority ( 52 per cent ) against . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | INSECTS perform highly sophisticated visual tasks with a tiny brain . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | With a tiny sigh she crossed the room towards him and he drew her on to his lap , his arms tight about her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All his beers have a tempting hop resin aroma , balanced by pale and crystal malts , with a tiny proportion of chocolate malt . |
| 30 | The Third was a highbrow station , with a tiny proportion of the audience . |