Example sentences of "[art] [noun] with a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Loretta turned to Simmons , feeling it was not an auspicious moment to trouble the porter with a sensitive request .
2 Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home .
3 Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home .
4 Sometimes it was pure hundred octane with a gas line coming into the tent with a little valve on it .
5 Quinn nearly got a second just before the break but this time Kavavaev was equal to a close-range effort after Gerry Taggart had provided the opportunity with a bustling header .
6 After this he would fill in the forms with a loaded brush , slapping the colour on with a wonderful deftness of touch and sense of control .
7 Kelly Turner 's Roxy delighted the crowds with a prizewinning trick — performing a ‘ dolphin flip ’ before retrieving darts from a board .
8 Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear .
9 Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks .
10 Join the strips with a plain seam and fold in half lengthways with right sides facing .
11 What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes , Elil-Hrair-Rah , or El-ahrairah — The Prince with a Thousand Enemies — is to rabbits .
12 I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more .
13 After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events .
14 Younger officers regard the change with a certain indifference .
15 A chalk grey suit , a new starched white shirt , a tie with diagonal stripes , the shirt with a button-down collar .
16 After the soldiers of former dictator Idi Amin fled the barracks of the district capital Moroto in 1979 , they left the Karimojong with a wide range of automatic weapons .
17 Yesterday , she seized the chance to confound the carping with a firm commitment to continuing the reforms in the health service .
18 Supplies needed : should be sufficient to last the period of the trial with a small reserve .
19 He reached into his gaming box and brought forth a piece , setting it down on the board with a satisfied air .
20 If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards !
21 The runner with a good endurance base finds training easier , and will recover properly from it — that is why the top-class 10,000m runners run 90 or 100 miles a week .
22 An excellent training shoe for the runner with a normal foot plant , who likes a very cushioned ride .
23 Crumplin scored the winner with a spectacular diving header six minutes from time after good work from Clive Walker and Gary Chivers .
24 The Norwegians fought back with goals from Karl Loken and Scammel Frud but Irwin struck the winner with a 20-yard free kick in the 71st minute .
25 A St Andrew 's crowd of only 10,614 saw little Louie Donowa hammer the winner with a rasping ninth minute volley from 18 yards .
26 And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out .
27 And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out .
28 The road emptied and the tide with a lazy paw had reached up and taken away most of the day 's leavings on the beach .
29 You can not use a singular form of the verb with a plural pronoun. ( 17 November 1988 )
30 Ludo leans over the saucepan and stirs the milk with a wooden spoon .
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