Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 4 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 5 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 6 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 7 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 8 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 9 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 10 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 11 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 12 | It lay around the office for a day or two , until someone had time to open it and send it back with a brief note , giving the time and circumstances of Elsie 's death . |
| 13 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 14 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 15 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 16 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 17 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 18 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 19 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 20 | She drawls them out with a heavy English accent . |
| 21 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 23 | We 've all read newspaper report of faulty hire equipment which has n't been properly checked or maintained ; a bad outlet could happily send you away with a potential deathtrap . |
| 24 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 25 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 26 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 27 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 28 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 29 | In most encounters with discourse , especially written discourse , we are in some way prepared for what is coming , if only because we ourselves have sought it out with a clear purpose ( Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 30 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |