Example sentences of "decorated with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't just her eating habits that kept Jess 's eyes riveted , or her extraordinary white wig that rose to a height of two feet or more and was decorated with bunches of false cherries and violets — it was the way she conducted herself . |
| 2 | An ostrich feather or comb in the hair , slit ears , a coloured loin-cloth , an iron or ivory bracelet , a dagger and sheath decorated with brass or silver : each of these and other decorations had its special significance . |
| 3 | Forget Bart Simpson : send children to school with bags , lunch boxes and stationery decorated with NSPCC 's Happy Kids design . |
| 4 | Bow-case and quiver , probably Nez Perce , of otterskin decorated with beadwork and pendants of ermine . |
| 5 | The Nez Perce knife and sheath date from the late nineteenth century and are decorated with beadwork in designs that continue to demonstrate a strong Plains influence . |
| 6 | They may also be decorated with dots , arcs , circles , triangles , stamped , notched or bear incised lines . |
| 7 | It is decorated with dots and circles and the keyhole is distinctively L-shaped . |
| 8 | The interiors of some houses , shrines and temples were richly decorated with frescoes . |
| 9 | The interiors were plastered and decorated with frescoes which developed a complex cycle of religious ideas . |
| 10 | The font will be decorated with honeycombs , hives and beekeeper 's equipment like veils and smokers . |
| 11 | When a special event or a victory like the Nile , Trafalgar or Waterloo was to be announced , the Mail Coach and horses were decorated with laurels and a red flag floated from the roof of the coach . |
| 12 | Evans thought the Minoans used sponges for painting , and felt he could detect that the plastered walls of the early temple at Knossos were decorated with sponges dipped in paint . |
| 13 | Paris furniture and , increasingly , paintings and drawings dealer Jean Gismondi , is planning to line his stands with late eighteenth-century boiseries from the Paris hôtel particulier of the dancer Mademoiselle Guimard , painted pale blue and pale green and decorated with terracotta plaques by Clodion , painted medallions and exquisitely fine carved foliage and flowers . |
| 14 | Hall 's office at Dalhousie is decorated with souvenirs of the drilling expeditions he has since helped organise . |
| 15 | I helped do the Sex sign and put all this foam rubber on the walls which were then decorated with quotations from Alexand Trocchi , soft porn spray can graffiti from the ‘ 68 Paris student revolt . |
| 16 | The domes and vaults were decorated with mosaic . |
| 17 | They are , however , particularly interesting to us as they are not entirely in ruins , because in A.D. 1563 Michelangelo converted the tepidarium into the nave of his Church , Santa Maria degli Angeli and retained the circular caldarium as an entrance vestibule with its domical roof now decorated with caissons and central roses . |
| 18 | She had been too long used to plain dark colours to take easily to the frivolous sprigs and pastel shades , decorated with frills and bands , and artificial flowers . |
| 19 | So their home was decorated with cane furniture , old pine and , of course , their own paintings and sculptures . |
| 20 | It retains its original mosaic floor decorated with strips of marble and porphyry on a ground of multi-colour tesserae . |
| 21 | Mrs Ainsworth 's home was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly , rows of drinks stood on the sideboard and the rich aroma of turkey and sage and onion sag wafted from the kitchen . |
| 22 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |
| 23 | She wears a gigantic wig decorated with feathers and red bows , the shape of which echoes that of the wide skirt . |
| 24 | The highest price of £14,059 was bid by a Taiwan dealer for two 12 in-high wine beakers decorated with feathers ( estimate £1,500 to £2,000 ) , the ceramic decanters of the pre-refrigeration age . |
| 25 | Serve on a plate decorated with lettuce and tomatoes . |
| 26 | The ceiling was decorated with cherubs and angels , and the frieze was inlaid with gold . |
| 27 | The downstairs restaurant where breakfast is served , has walls decorated with paintings of people dressed in traditional local costumes . |
| 28 | Walls and ceilings were marble faced or decorated with paintings in fresco , tempera or caustic medium . |
| 29 | Among the most important information was news from Switzerland of a sketch for the Mona Lisa , with the artist 's working notes scribbled on the reverse , five other drawings from the Windsor Collection , a map of the New World showing Florida as an island next to Japan , and a plate decorated with phalluses , missing since the 1830s . |
| 30 | Here , all timber was decorated with Weathershield Exterior Woodstain , which needs no undercoat unless applied to new or bare wood . |