Example sentences of "the neck and a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A more successful change was the abandoning of the course-knit , lace-up jersey in favour of a shirt with buttons at the neck and a turn-over collar .
2 When she goes to parties she will wear not a party frock but a summer frock with a bow at the neck and a tie round the waist .
3 Men 's stripy yarn dyed crew neck shirt finished with a twin-stitched band at the neck and a breast pocket .
4 Funny to think that the elegant cocktail dress , carefully applied make-up and coiffed hair , conceals a roll-on , a boned bra , flesh-coloured wire toupée-taped to the neck and a pouchful of wires , plugs and batteries .
5 Half an hour later Penelope was encased — for it was a fraction too tight for her — in the lame cocktail dress with the hem roughly tacked up , the sequin trimming torn away from the neck and a string of black beads hanging down below the waist .
6 In Bath last Wednesday , one hit him on the back of the neck and a woman was arrested .
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