Example sentences of "with a [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak . |
| 2 | She snipped crisp green stalks with a pair of scissors . |
| 3 | The small fair woman snipped her blue thread with a pair of scissors . |
| 4 | The people of Munich call their version of Weissbier ‘ breakfast beer ’ and have it with a pair of coddled veal sausages . |
| 5 | Then the skinny fey usher in white gloves neatly snips your proffered ticket in two : with a pair of nail scissors . |
| 6 | Round the kink in the road after Beaufort Street market and there , on the right hand side , was a shop with a pair of creepers in the window |
| 7 | He was busily pruning his nails with a pair of scissors and trying to make up his mind about the proper degree of flippancy to adopt for his conversation with Madeleine , when the romance of his afternoon was suddenly eclipsed by the strident voice of his father , grating like a rusty wheel on a dry axle . |
| 8 | I wore them with a pair of black leather gloves trimmed with fake fur , and the jacket , which has padded shoulders and is trimmed with feathers . ’ |
| 9 | The drawing-room is fully panelled , with a pair of Doric pilasters flanking the chimney-breast . |
| 10 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 11 | IN a desperate attempt to keep the Bat boom , DC 's next treatment of the Dark Knight myth will be John Byrne 's Batman 3-D , which will come complete with a pair of 3-D glasses . |
| 12 | Mark props the rusted bonnet of the Mini with an iron bar , jump-starts it with a pair of wrist-thick wires , and we are away . |
| 13 | This Katherine bites the heads off rag-dolls and threatens her sister Bianca with a pair of pinking shears . |
| 14 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |
| 15 | I 've known them fitted with steel screws which rust in , making it necessary to break the china away and remove the screws later with a pair of Molegrips . |
| 16 | They can also be divided crossways into three regions , a well-defined head ( cephalon ) at the front , usually equipped with a pair of eyes , a thorax with a variable number of articulated segments , and at the back end a tail ( or pygidium ) formed by the fusion of several segments . |
| 17 | I have just replaced the Stromberg carbs on my 1975 low compression Range Rover with a pair of SUs from an SD1 . |
| 18 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 19 | His friend , a tall , bearded man in a black vest with a pair of garden shears in his hand , stared at me without smiling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 22 | Jazz appropriated Mr Nicholson 's carpet slippers and Hoomey had to make do with a pair of fluffy mules which the missing Mrs Nicholson had left behind . |
| 23 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 24 | Other pranks included a chair which , when sat upon , pinned down the unwary with a pair of mechanical arms : another was a slipper placed upon the floor which , when kicked , caused a weird and ghostly apparition to arise . |
| 25 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 26 | At our last meeting he presented me with a pair of small Tibetan scrolls . |
| 27 | The temptation to go shopping with a pair of wirecutters and snip the leads to those hidden loudspeakers is immense . |
| 28 | The man at the stage door seemed disinclined to argue with a pair of French uniforms , and indicated one of the larger dressing-rooms along an ill-lit corridor . |
| 29 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 30 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |