Example sentences of "at the [adj] white " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn gazed up at the billowing white clouds and a longing for Luke 's touch , unlike anything she had ever felt before , overwhelmed her completely — her whole being ached with the desire to be held in his arms , to feel the strength and comfort and warmth of his body close to hers . |
| 2 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 3 | Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! ) |
| 4 | She looked down at the spotless white surface of the table . |
| 5 | The turquoise sea lapped softly at the hot white sands . |
| 6 | With a longing look at the gleaming white bowl , he hastily opened the door again and stepped on to the landing . |
| 7 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 8 | At The Old White Horse Pub , 261 Brixton Road from 6 pm — 11 pm . |
| 9 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 10 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
| 11 | She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin . |
| 12 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 13 | Staring out at the dim white lawn , through the close-up falling lines of black and white , Alan said quietly , ‘ You love him more than me , do n't you ? ’ ’ |
| 14 | He looked at the spreading white pool helplessly , and Claudia leapt to her feet to avoid the liquid splashing her jeans . |
| 15 | Jack Butler stared morosely at the large white television in his modern penthouse fiat in the centre of Leeds . |