Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] with a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 2 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 3 | Dust lightly with a little icing sugar before serving . |
| 4 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 5 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 6 | Old Fishfinger is a regular visitor to the PFK offices , from which he occasionally manages to sneak away with a few reader 's queries . |
| 7 | Let us begin here with a few facts — and also some fallacies — about the present . |
| 8 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 9 | The point is that we will never know what God can do with us until we 've ventured forward with a little faith . |
| 10 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 11 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 12 | Brush lightly with a little milk and bake at 220C/425F/Gas 7 for 12–15 minutes until well risen and golden brown on the bottom of the scones . |
| 13 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 14 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 15 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 16 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |