Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
2 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
3 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
4 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
5 | It was the pointy headstock revolution which led to the wide usage of scarf jointing , as the thinner necks which went with such guitars were prone to breaking behind the nut , where the headstock pitched back but the wood grain did n't follow it . |
6 | Then , in that mean , ill-lit corridor I collided with another prisoner being pushed the other way . |
7 | And so in these circumstances I dealt with much speed and remarkably low Scottish cunning . |
8 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
9 | He did not rate his findings on the antibacterial substance worthy of a full paper , and included them in a publication which dealt with several substances derived from Penicillia . |
10 | Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle . |
11 | For a moment they struggled with each other 's clothing , tearing at the lacing , freeing themselves , and then he had lifted her on to him and was thrusting deep into her , her legs wrapped about his back , her pelvis pushing down urgently to meet his movements . |
12 | By the early 1940s , the influence of Orson Welles and William Wyler as directors , together with Gregg Toland , the innovative lighting cameraman they shared with each other ( and sometimes with John Ford and Howard Hawks too ) , made deep-focus more fashionable . |
13 | In business they conferred with each other for a few minutes and then made their offer . |
14 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
15 | An inquest into the death of James Carney , 24 , of Thames Road , Redcar , who was a passenger in a taxi which collided with another vehicle , was adjourned yesterday pending the outcome of court proceedings . |
16 | And she made a little dint in the ground which filled with some water and became a little pool for the snake to drink out . |
17 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
18 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
19 | that was the trouble you had with that table top , do you remember doing that polishing ? |
20 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
21 | His business today includes course architecture and not , it seems , teaching the game he played with such flair . |
22 | A bit raffish in her carelessness she stood with both feet trampling the heap of clothes until her head emerged from the muffling of the white , over-ribboned , nightgown . |
23 | ‘ I 'm not such an outsider that I ca n't see what a mistake you made with those steps — ‘ |
24 | Lynch in fact , directed only the pilot and one of the subsequent eight one-hour episodes , turning the scripts he co-wrote with former Hill Street Blues man Mark Frost over to guest directors including Tim Hunter ( River 's Edge ) and Caleb Deschanel ( Crusoe ) . |
25 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
26 | The Marxist book I reviewed with several others in The Criterion for October 1937 . |
27 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
28 | I met a number of people at the consultation who concurred with that view . |
29 | SATURDAYS the Jews of Cork spent with their families and their God , Sundays they spent with each other . |
30 | Clearly results must improve quickly if Darlington are to preserve the status they attained with such distinction under the leadership of former manager Brian Little . |