Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] covered with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were whitewashed and covered with bullfighting posters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had the woman stripped and covered with a blanket in moments , and bit her lip to contain her anger . |
| 5 | 2 Keep the filo sheets stacked and covered with a damp cloth . |
| 6 | Prevention of infection is the objective whenever surgical wounds are cleaned and covered with a sterile dressing or spray . |
| 7 | With sufficient strength left , my legs bleeding and covered with burns , I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis , six kilometres from St Pierre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or walls can be battened and covered with another layer of plasterboard with more insulating material . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The divisions are planted so that half the rhizome is above the soil surface , as they rot if covered with soil . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was pretty nasty , and was constantly infected and covered with flies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Periods of peat accumulation were followed by periods of rapid subsidence in which the peat swamp was submerged and covered with silt or sand . |
| 19 | It was badly chipped and covered with rust marks . |
| 20 | The operation proceeded methodically once the bushes had been cleared , though the spots where the mysterious fragments had been found were carefully tagged and covered with plastic . |