Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] with [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dark-haired girl with firelight on her face , the smell of turf burning on a winter night , the sound of the sea raging at the shore in a fury of storm . |
| 2 | To reach the glacier you have to walk through a tunnel , then down a narrow ridge with Death on one side and a very steep drop on the other . |
| 3 | Colonel Goreng , a rural thug with ribbon on his chest and scrambled egg on his cap , was somewhat in awe of the antecedents of his young wife . |
| 4 | Now he was a retired countryman with time on his hands , looking for company . |
| 5 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 6 | Mrs Morey was outside , seated on a wooden bench with Corrie on her lap and Lily beside her , both children enthralled with a story she was telling . |
| 7 | When Gates heard it next , at the end of a three-man lunch with Casey on October 9th ( North made ‘ a cryptic comment about Swiss accounts and the contras ’ ) , he took it slightly more seriously , and asked Casey about it . |
| 8 | There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next . |
| 9 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 10 | It led into a tiny vestibule with doors on all three sides . |
| 11 | There was a pretty handkerchief with flowers on it , from Phyllis . |
| 12 | We found a mossy stump with droppings on it . |
| 13 | This is a large village with earthworks on the periphery which were excavated initially by David Hall in advance of redevelopment for houses . |
| 14 | In his right hand was a large cake with jam on it . |
| 15 | Apart from that , and a brief exchange with Boswell on one of the Macleod family , it was now clear that Johnson found little stimulation on Raasay : ‘ There was not enough of intellectual entertainment for him , after he had satisfied his curiosity , which he did , by asking questions , till he had exhausted the island ’ : does Boswell mean the topic of Raasay or its people ? |
| 16 | Also , I have a square heater with doors on the side for which I need a 12V motor . |
| 17 | The conman , driving a white car with POLICE on its sides , stopped his victim on the A14 , near Barton Seagrave , Northants . |
| 18 | Iran signed a 10-year agreement with China on Jan. 21 , 1990 , for scientific and technological co-operation in military industries . |
| 19 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
| 20 | The two continental blocks of the North Atlantic and Eurasian cratons were on opposite sides of the Iapetus Ocean , which was gradually closing in a complex way with subduction on both sides . |
| 21 | A black boy with extensions on his hair walked over to her and asked her to dance . |
| 22 | DB2/6000 is accompanied by Distributed Database Connection Services , which provides support for IBM 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture , and the two enable the RS/6000 to participate in a distributed schema with DB2 on IBM mainframes , the OS/400 database , and DB/2 . |
| 23 | DB2/6000 is accompanied by Distributed Database Connection Services , which provides support for IBM 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture , and the two enable the RS/6000 to participate in a distributed schema with DB2 on IBM mainframes , the OS/400 database , and DB/2 . |
| 24 | The talks were proposed by the US , which is anxious to avoid a damaging confrontation with Japan on the issue at the IWC meeting in May [ see ED 67 ] ; if accepted , the deal would mean Japan giving up its current whaling activities in the Antarctic . |
| 25 | Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , had been a critic of the policy of outgoing Finance Minister Chief Olu Falae who had taken a tough stance with creditors on the renegotiation of Nigeria 's foreign debt . |
| 26 | Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , had been a critic of the policy of outgoing Finance Minister Chief Olu Falae who had taken a tough stance with creditors on the renegotiation of Nigeria 's foreign debt . |
| 27 | Mr Currie said it was like being ‘ back in medieval times ’ , as he surveyed a table laden with kitchen knives , swords and home-made weapons including a rolling pin with spikes on the end . |
| 28 | Co-ordinators were given an update on recently published crime figures and a general briefing with emphasis on the importance of locking outbuildings to prevent the theft of things like power tools , lawn mowers and fishing tackle . |
| 29 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 30 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |