Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] covered " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , you could make the screens or shutters easily detachable and have one surface painted or covered in fabric so that you could ring the changes when you felt like it or have different ones for summer and winter . |
| 2 | Melanie was stiff , aching and covered in smuts . |
| 3 | The walls were whitewashed and covered with bullfighting posters . |
| 4 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 5 | There is little to fear from them if they can be closely examined , though they can be rather more deceptive when framed and covered with glass . |
| 6 | Sunday dinner was always a special one , culminating in Auntie 's home-grown fruit , stewed and covered in thick Cornish cream . |
| 7 | But his body was twisted and covered with matted hair ; his legs were short , his arms were long ; his feet resembled cloven hooves and his fingers were claws . |
| 8 | During the clashes , the replacement workers sat with their heads bowed and covered in the buses as the vehicles inched forward against the press of bodies . |
| 9 | Inside , the two-aisled , hall church is vaulted and covered by paintings , but these are not so fine as those at Lohja and Hattula . |
| 10 | She had the woman stripped and covered with a blanket in moments , and bit her lip to contain her anger . |
| 11 | 2 Keep the filo sheets stacked and covered with a damp cloth . |
| 12 | Prevention of infection is the objective whenever surgical wounds are cleaned and covered with a sterile dressing or spray . |
| 13 | Has smothered and covered in dust : the sweets of childhood , the matches of adolescence , the pills of maturity . |
| 14 | However , it was badly-damaged , bent and covered in paint . |
| 15 | With sufficient strength left , my legs bleeding and covered with burns , I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis , six kilometres from St Pierre . |
| 16 | One dead soldier was in a sitting position , his back against a wall , his head leaning backwards with the eyes staring and mouth hanging open , his blonde hair matted and covered with blood . |
| 17 | One of Ginny 's earliest memories was of the contrast between the white of his shirt and shorts and the brown of his skin ; his legs and arms had been heavily muscled and covered with a sprinkling of dark hairs , and beads of sweat on his upper lip drained into his thin moustache . |
| 18 | Or walls can be battened and covered with another layer of plasterboard with more insulating material . |
| 19 | The gap between them , that area which had been mined and covered by machine-guns from the watch-towers , was about forty metres wide . |
| 20 | Both appeared as nearly naked as possible after the censor had cut or covered his pound of flesh . |
| 21 | Glancing despairingly down at what — only a few hours ago — had been a crisp , smart cotton dress in her favourite shade of sapphire-blue , but which was now crumpled and covered with sticky finger-marks , she gave a heavy sigh . |
| 22 | make sure it 's knocked or covered by clothing . |
| 23 | The area in the vicinity of welding and all below it should be thoroughly cleared of all flammable rubbish , the welding area should be screened as completely as possible , all inflammable materials should be removed or covered with fire protective sheets . |
| 24 | In general you 're going to be paying £10 to £20 more for a fleece lined with Windstopper than a fleece lined or covered with some other material . |
| 25 | support the organic farming movement ( see Chapter 10 ) to stop Set Aside farmland being over-developed and covered in concrete |
| 26 | The brickwork in the x-ray theatre is crossed , bonded and covered with a barium rich plaster which ensures that the room is sealed from radiation leakage . |
| 27 | It was pretty nasty , and was constantly infected and covered with flies . |
| 28 | Her white hair was loose and there was pink scalp showing between the strands ; her cheeks were flushed and covered with little red threads like tiny wireworms . |
| 29 | Periods of peat accumulation were followed by periods of rapid subsidence in which the peat swamp was submerged and covered with silt or sand . |
| 30 | He was screaming and covered in blood . ’ |