Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] covered " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far he has visited 98 countries and covered over 280,000 km from pole to pole , through Africa and the Americas . |
| 2 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 3 | The landlord grinned , listed the contents of his larder , and within the half-hour served a couple of pullets stuffed with herbs and covered with a piquant sauce of sweet butter and wild berries , a skillet pasty , an apple tansy , and a prodigious marrow pudding . |
| 4 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 5 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 6 | The headlamps became two circular projectors housed in the wings and covered by plexiglass shells . |
| 7 | Bathed in batter , soaked in suds and covered in clay — ‘ ambushed ’ a thousand times by Sooty and his scheming friends , Sweep and Soo ! |
| 8 | As the two men climb aboard the ship , Garvey 's body begins to transform into a Varga — a half-animal , half-vegetable creature armed with poison thorns and covered with coarse , white hair . |
| 9 | It was here that they were found , over 30,000 of them , stored in boxes and covered in dust , some of them in a poor condition . |
| 10 | Both amp and speakers are enclosed in wooden cabs and covered in a tactile grey fabric . |
| 11 | They bought a lot of milk , anyway ; the larder was full of it , poured into china jugs and covered with muslin veils weighted with coloured beads . |
| 12 | Next came four schoolboys , one of them carrying an open copy of the Koran placed upon a kind of platform of palm-sticks and covered with an embroidered kerchief . |
| 13 | The floor had been specially tiled with small red and white lozenge-shaped stones and covered with woollen rugs . |
| 14 | ‘ She was partly dismantled with flat tyres and covered in dust and junk , but she fascinated me and even in this state she looked elegant ’ . |
| 15 | The hybridisation mixture containing 10 5 cpm/µl of 3 5 S-labelled RNA probe was pipetted onto dry slides and covered with siliconised glass coverslips . |