Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this show is reinforced by miming a stumble or a mindless struggle with the door on leaving yet again . |
| 2 | Inside the dawn Mass was just ending , the priest offering Christ to God in the presence of three old women , a beggar and a blind man with his dog . |
| 3 | It has a superb roof-top terrace and a small pool with breathtaking views . |
| 4 | There is a heated indoor swimming pool , and the hotel also has a library/TV room , fitness room , sun terrace and a pleasant garden with chairs and parasols . |
| 5 | Ten years later he had acquired , thanks to some daring mortgaging and a firm way with sitting tenants , a hold on Notting Hill Gate and a sizeable amount of the East End of London . |
| 6 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 7 | ‘ The inexperience of youth , ’ says Cramer , ‘ often leads to fears , uncertainty and a general unease with life . |
| 8 | Four-speaker radio/cassette , clock , sun visors which slot neatly into roof recesses and a wide dashboard with shelf on top add up to an interior only let down by its rather cheap plastic finish . |
| 9 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 10 | Buy a horse and a new gun with some of the money . |
| 11 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
| 12 | All you had to do was walk past in high heels and a tight skirt with your popper beads hanging down your button-up cardigan and a bra which shaped your breasts into sharply protruding cones and they exploded into admiring noises , gave you the eye , even followed you home . |
| 13 | Even today Auntie Jean was straight-backed and splendid in high heels and a dark-blue dress with a diamond brooch in the shape of a diving fish pinned to her front . |
| 14 | In a complex competitive commercial world , certain issues require n -depth thought and that requires time time that can not he found in a committee or a two-hour meeting with a fixed agenda . |
| 15 | And on a big day when there 's a trophy at stake or a local derby with old scores to settle , they can make the Marquis De Sade look like a good guy . |
| 16 | The bird-swat includes the same approach , but then ends with an upward leap and a sharp blow with the front foot . |
| 17 | There is a comfortable lounge with a log fire and bar and a south-facing sunroom with superb views of the wild rugged landscape dominated by the mountain , Ben More . |
| 18 | the hotel has two lounges , a TV room , a snack bar and a rustic bar with a very relaxing atmosphere for evening drinks . |
| 19 | Anyway , he was a lean and hot-eyed human , wearing the usual Famlio garb — a roomy over-tunic and trousers of dull black with white pinstrips and a black shirt with a wide white necktie hanging down the front . |
| 20 | The sisters stopped on a narrow bridge over it , near nothing , except a gasholder and a filthy hoarding with a Capstan tobacco advertisement . |
| 21 | The Princess was a childhood friend of the Queen and a firm favourite with King George V. Her family 's home was Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park , and it was here , after visiting the King and Queen at Windsor during the Easter of 1921 , that she watched her mother and sister assembling a collection of miniature furniture for the Queen . |
| 22 | It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter . |
| 23 | Union means subjugation to most Norwegians , who recall their 400-year union with Denmark and a century-long union with Sweden before independence in 1905 . |
| 24 | As an adult survivor of both types of abuse and a professional dealing with others coming to terms with their abuse , I know . |
| 25 | She was an elderly lady , small and frail-looking , wearing her best tweed overcoat and a small hat with some faded cretonne flowers on its side . |
| 26 | Montserrat , part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 , when it became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory , is governed by a Governor , who presides over an Executive Council and a Legislative Council with seven elected , two official and two nominated members . |
| 27 | By the latter decades of the century we see a firm assault on the masturbating child and a growing concern with male homosexuality . |
| 28 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 29 | We fully realise the problems that can arise from buying a secondhand vehicle but a new minibus with facilities for helping the disabled would cost £16,000 . |
| 30 | I edged my way along clutching the banking , till a young man in a bright red T-shirt and a small boy with a grey sack , who I had seen skipping up the path earlier , forced me to adopt a more dignified , upright position . |