Example sentences of "with a [noun] of [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one Sunday afternoon when I saw Zebbie the Coalpicker pushing a bicycle up the hill with a sack of coals on the cross-bar . |
| 2 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 3 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 4 | The general flew backwards with a look of shock on his face . |
| 5 | But when he saw me , he stepped back , with a look of wonder on his face . |
| 6 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 7 | A junior platoon , still weeks from their own Pass-Off Parade , marches slowly past , the fatigue of a day 's fieldcraft training mixing with a look of envy on their faces as they notice the celebration of those for whom training is now a memory . |
| 8 | Henry Eliot 's condition had worsened , with a bout of pneumonia on top of his leukaemia , and in anticipation of another visit to America Eliot was trying to book his passage for spring 1947 , although he was ready to fly out at once if there was a sudden crisis . |
| 9 | Maybe phenomena like the Needle , a pockmarked warty old erect penis with a tuft of grass on its tip , do not hold the same attraction these days . |
| 10 | They are trained in a corridor fashion over latadas , a sun-bleached framework of chestnut wood posts with a lattice of canes on top . |
| 11 | Across the stream , tumbling fast on its way to Glyme and Evenlode , one sees a wide sedgy hollow planted with willow saplings , from which flocks of goldfinches rise with a flash of wings on sunny mornings . |
| 12 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 13 | ‘ Does he tell everyone I 'm going to college ? ’ she asked , with a smile of pleasure on her face . |
| 14 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 15 | ‘ This particularly rich pagan cemetery still contains skeletons and grave goods in good condition and will provide us with a wealth of information on the health and culture of the sixth-century inhabitants of Cambridgeshire , ’ Mr Malim said . |
| 16 | There were speckly eggs in trays on the shelf , slabs of pale , oozy butter , and a big bowl of milk with a skin of cream on the top . |
| 17 | You will look at your own child , whose current display of skills is limited to marching around the house with a pair of knickers on his head claiming to be Postman Pat , and you will get restless . |
| 18 | My idea of being snug and comfortable is sitting in an armchair by a log fire , with a pair of slippers on and someone to bring me soup . |
| 19 | AN ATTEMPT to lift confidence in the Government 's control of the economy will be made tomorrow when the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , is expected to deliver an austerity Budget with a promise of recovery on the horizon . |
| 20 | Your book landed up with a pile of others on the desk of Hailsham 's private secretary . |
| 21 | When I say that I can see , I mean that I can identify the three-dimensional shapes of objects , and their relative positions : thus , I can see that there is a chair standing in front of a table with a pile of books on it . |
| 22 | Should any puny neophyte reach our end , which seems unlikely , you will be rewarded with a brand of honour on your buttock . |
| 23 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 24 | He sat with a frown of puzzlement on his forehead , then turned back to join again the talk around him . |
| 25 | He returned to assist Frye , who was standing now with a frown of concentration on his face . |
| 26 | A couple of hours later I collected the box , mysteriously taped down and with a mass of weight on top . |
| 27 | One evening , I sat in a cantina with a row of bottles on the bar , and tried to remember absurdly small things about my own life . |
| 28 | Measure up from the hemline and mark the finished length of the curtains , either by tacking across the width of the fabric , or with a row of pins on the right side . |
| 29 | ‘ They may be nice kids , ’ said Cowley sharply , ‘ but that 's a family with a pedigree of villainy on both sides . |
| 30 | With a bit of luck on their side these young fellers could make Leeds once again the finest side in Britain , as under the Don . |