Example sentences of "[vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It bristled with hand-stitched leather , walnut fascia and electronic instruments . |
| 32 | Each fruit bristled with invisible barbs , a pin-cushion of spider 's craft and cunning , a defence against predators more efficient than a carapace . |
| 33 | The many fragments of clay and stone sacral horns found on the site suggest that the Labyrinth at Knossos bristled with sacral horns . |
| 34 | Thus , while the Giorgio show bristled with understated elegance this spring , the Emporio extravaganza was a riot of wild colour and audacious shapes , featuring eye-popping tartans and sizzling satin trenchcoats along with the sludgy , tweedy garments which constitute the cut-price clothes of more typical Armani fashion |
| 35 | Open stone staircases swept up to bedrooms that bristled with floor-to-ceiling windows . |
| 36 | But Brook had given the volunteer a passage from Peter Weiss ' play on Auschwitz , which recounted with great clarity a description of the dead . |
| 37 | Leon cast with creditable fluency , well beyond the encircling reeds . |
| 38 | John Simon Howley , 36 , of no fixed abode , appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with two offences of burglary and one of attempted burglary . |
| 39 | A soldier appeared in court yesterday charged with two sex offences . |
| 40 | And the year after the Vespers Carlo Borromeo 's nephew , the Neapolitan Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa ( c. 1562–1613 ) , published a set of Responsoria charged with chromatic emotionalism . |
| 41 | 22 year old Lebanese chauffuer Ali Choukeir has appeared at the Palais de Justice charged with involuntary manslaughter . |
| 42 | John Wade , 20 , of Hickstead Court , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with attempted kidnapping and possessing an offensive weapon . |
| 43 | Alan Swindon , 25 , of Elliott Drive , Felling , Newcastle , was sent for crown court trial by Newcastle magistrates yesterday charged with murdering Paul Furness , 21 , of Ashington , outside a city centre nightclub last November . |
| 44 | LABOURER Michael McNeil , 48 , of Glebeland Road , Culcheth , Warrington , appeared before the town 's magistrates yesterday charged with murdering landscape gardener Graham Oultram , 57 , and was remanded in custody until June 29 after no application for bail was made . |
| 45 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 46 | An 18-year-old man of no fixed abode appeared at Teesside magistrates court yesterday charged with aggravated burglary in connection with an incident involving a 58-year-old woman in her home in North Ormesby on Thursday . |
| 47 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 48 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 49 | Cistus ladanifer — A musk scented evergreen rock rose with sticky foliage and huge white flowers . |
| 50 | Plasma active and total renin and prorenin concentrations rose with both types of treatment but the ratio of active renin to prorenin concentration was higher with enalapril than hydrochlorothiazide . |
| 51 | The commodities boom had increased many less developed countries ' ( LDC ) export earnings , and imports rose with some lag . |
| 52 | L'ARRIVEE RS-4 Canadian handbuilt Super Strat , ebony fingerboard , thru-neck , carved top , Floyd Rose with hard case and strap locks , £375 ono . |
| 53 | Confirmed secularists joked with Islamic fundamentalists at a high-security press conference called to mark the signing of a 12-point unity charter outlining a transition to democracy . |
| 54 | ‘ Good place to bury the bodies , ’ she joked with black humour . |
| 55 | ‘ No , but then how do you ever know that your dear little baby is n't going to grow up to be tall and elegant ? ’ she quipped with huge enjoyment . |
| 56 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 57 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 58 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 59 | Slowly the tension eased as we realised that we were going to make it ; we exchanged jokes , we moved with greater confidence . |
| 60 | Despite robe and boots she moved with graceful speed , and without any flicker of fear . |