Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] with a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 2 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 3 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 4 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 5 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 6 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 7 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 8 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 9 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 10 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 11 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 12 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 13 | 2 men were seen walking away and then driving off with a woman and possibly another man . |
| 14 | A few people were about , returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry . |
| 15 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 16 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
| 17 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 18 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 19 | Laura came down with a handkerchief and wiped her son 's nose . |
| 20 | The bag came down with a thud and spilt its contents over the bare oak planks . |
| 21 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 22 | A little Fulham girl who he said was quite promising came in with a friend or two to dance with her . |
| 23 | This young lad about probably about twenty three , twenty four , and he came in with a cigarette and I said excu excuse me but I 'm afraid it 's a no-smoking area . |
| 24 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 25 | Shampooing can be undertaken at home using a good quality wool detergent , with perhaps a cup of vinegar in a dilute solution , which should be applied gently with a sponge or cloth after the rug has been cleansed . |
| 26 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps she 'd do better with a cat or a dog . ’ |
| 28 | Maud came through with a drink and said , ‘ Why do n't you read Tales for Innocents ? |
| 29 | Once hardened , the repair can be shaped flush with a plane and chisel , before a final finish with abrasive paper . |
| 30 | Despite these precautions , I quite often came home with a flea and my mother would take out the streaked bottle of calamine lotion and dab the itchy lumps . |