Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australian 250 rider David Evelyn has just collided with Cadalora in qualifying and is heading straight for a concrete wall . |
| 2 | Eventually , as has already occurred with Islam in some countries , these countervailing centres of power will challenge governments and sometimes gain control over them . |
| 3 | The idea of basing decisions on generalisations about the elderly rather than on the needs of individual elderly patients has also met with criticism on purely ethical grounds . |
| 4 | In higher education , for example , the idea of the autonomy of the University Grants Committee ( replaced in 1988 by the University Funding Council ) as a buffer between the universities and the Department of Education and Science has been shattered and the Department has regularly intervened with advice to universities and polytechnics about subject areas which should have greater or less resources . |
| 5 | But the authorities could not control their minds and many were becoming increasingly disillusioned with developments in contemporary China . |
| 6 | Offers were pouring in , my money was increasing by the week and I 'd already signed with A.T.V. for a T.V. show with five other ‘ New Faces ’ acts — Victoria Wood and Lenny Henry among them . |
| 7 | And when Ross had proceeded to tell all the interested spectators — of which there had been many — that he and Laura were on their second honeymoon … she 'd almost exploded with loathing of the man who was now so clearly dominating her life . |
| 8 | The importance of social class membership in providing access to resources , including income , was demonstrated by the fact that differences between the propensity of those in different classes to retire early increased with distance from pension age . |
| 9 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 10 | The return of Lady Eleanor with a pile of fine linen shifts scarcely registered with Isabel as a rapid succession of images flashed through her mind : fitzAlan confronting the Empress with that cold , relentless logic ; wounded and feverish in the hut , but still in control of both her and the situation ; swinging his sword with savage , deadly grace at the ford ; leaning over her at the inn this morning ; holding her … |
| 11 | The 10 × 8 notebooks , which balanced habitually on his knee or beside the telephone , and in which he scribbled details of conversations , contracts , memos to himself , became increasingly filled with lists of monies owing , from foreign licensees , publishing , club takings — a barometer of his mounting sense of urgency : ‘ Germany , £200,000 in deutschmarks in banking system , on way ; France , £50,000 coming later this month ; Portugal , £20,000 coming 14 June ; Australia , 25,000 Australian dollars coming next Friday . ’ |
| 12 | Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad . |
| 13 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 14 | She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him — his pottery — his plans , but she felt too filled with emotion at the moment . |
| 15 | Height velocity in the first year after operation increased dramatically compared with year before operation among patients with growth potential . |
| 16 | The cast of Sea Change included , among the fisherfolk , a dancer new to the company who became closely associated with John in later years , Peter Wright . |
| 17 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 18 | On some issues teachers had not agreed with advisers in their diagnosis of problems and therefore were reluctant to put into practice suggested changes . |
| 19 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 20 | Naseby had positively glowed with satisfaction at the revelations of this budding Sarah Bernhardt . |
| 21 | Primarily ET , as realized on-screen , was the creation of Carlo Rambaldi , an Italian sculptor and inventor ( his own self-description ) , who had formerly worked with Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ) and with Ridley Scott on Alien ( 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Actually , I had n't played with Craig on the North American tour but we had trained together and he is such a very good player , and , of course , in playing district and other representative rugby you just have to fit in with different stand-offs . |
| 23 | Had n't reckoned with weight of glass in my calculations . |
| 24 | Widow Lilian Boyes , 70 , had earlier pleaded with doctors to ‘ finish her off , ’ Winchester Crown Court heard . |
| 25 | Third , the diplomatic accord which the Carolingians had earlier enjoyed with Offa in Mercia had been destroyed ( see below , pp. 185 ff . ) . |
| 26 | Though canine distemper virus transcripts ( and in one case measles virus also ) have been isolated from pagetic tissue , these data must be interpreted with caution in view of the possibility of external contamination , since the same group had previously worked with probes to both viruses during earlier in situ hybridisation studies . |
| 27 | Self-interest becomes inextricably entwined with concern about the effects of public policies on the running of prisons , income support for the unemployed , tax evasion , smuggling , pollution , health care and the enforcement of minimum-wage and safety legislation in industry . |
| 28 | ‘ We have all dealt with Tatra during our careers , ’ says Mr Rutherford . |
| 29 | Discussions have already started with members of the SWAPO Women 's Council on how best to build support for Namibian women in this crucial period of Namibian independence . |
| 30 | FBI negotiators , who have not spoken with Koresh since Monday , said they were unaware of a request to provide a doctor and would probably refuse . |