Example sentences of "pair [prep] [adj] spectacles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 2 | He was an odd little man , peering anxiously up at her out of hunched shoulders through a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles , on his head an outdated tie-wig . |
| 3 | Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India . |
| 4 | Day after day she could be seen sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of her house , a pair of silver-rimmed spectacles perched across her mask , a copy of the Qur'an or a book of the Hadith on her lap , oblivious to the movements of the household . |
| 5 | He looked so much older than when she last saw him — tired and thin — his hair receding , a pair of wire-framed spectacles upon his nose . |
| 6 | A chemist 's shop in Marylebone High Street yielded a pair of plain-glass spectacles with heavy horn rims and a men 's outfitters a tweed hat and Burberry . |
| 7 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 8 | We were curious about the masks , and asked a matron in a pink jumpsuit and a pair of bat-wing spectacles about them . |
| 9 | He glanced up at her over a pair of imaginary spectacles . |
| 10 | He was in his late twenties with pale skin , prematurely thinning hair and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles which made him look studious . |
| 11 | He was wearing a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles . |
| 12 | The wig he finally chose needed modification by a barber ; but he got it done , put on a pair of folding spectacles he carried in his briefcase , and had the satisfaction of astonishing his colleagues when he walked back into the hotel . |