Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Curriculum sections of the ERA , essentially centralising and directive in character , sit uneasily with a variety of other arrangements which undermine the Local Education Authority as intermediary between centre ( DES ) and periphery ( school ) : ‘ opting out ’ , City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) , open enrolment , local management of schools ( LMS ) . |
| 2 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 3 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 4 | The only giggle ( not a niggle , this time ) I 've had is that , in common with most of the new GST range , the BoP box is filled mostly with a chunk of pink polystyrene — a case of more is less ? |
| 5 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 6 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 7 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 8 | As thousands of refugees prepare for winter , our reporter Kim Barnes has flown in with a plane-load of desperately-needed warm clothing , to see at first hand the work being done to help . |
| 9 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 10 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 11 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 12 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 13 | Directions as to how to use the aid should also be given together with a discussion of the circumstances in which its use is likely to be helpful . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually they 're meat and coconut , just mixed together with a touch of coriander . |
| 16 | The following evening , 31 October , Pierre Salinger of ABC News , weighed in with a story of his own : |
| 17 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 18 | Fabia could n't help picking up the air of excitement about her , and realised that she was n't the only one when barely had they sat down with a cup of tea than her father , an observant man , was asking , ‘ Are you going to tell us about it — or is it a secret ? ’ |
| 19 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 20 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 21 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 22 | First , the analysis focuses mainly on the textual features of Larkin 's " Talking in Bed " thus only partially highlighting their communicative value in the author-reader interaction and , as a result , re-proposing the formalist idea of foregrounding only with a veneer of novelty . |
| 23 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 24 | The hearing occupied the justices on 27 and 28 January 1992 , the second day being occupied largely with a consideration of the mother 's application for a contact order . |
| 25 | So I bet he 's come away with a quarter of a million ! |
| 26 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 28 | Our advice is that , where hedgerows are to be replaced , they should not be substituted just with a row of quickthorn between two strands of barbed wire , but with a mixed , proper , traditional hedge — which would be much better for the environment and habitat . |
| 29 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |