Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 2 | Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater . |
| 3 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 5 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 6 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 7 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Wheel on Jeremy Beadle and get it over with . ’ |
| 9 | She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine . |
| 10 | She bowed in her turn to an irresistible force and let us in with raised eyebrows and an air of power suspended , not abdicated . |
| 11 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 12 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |
| 13 | Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip . |
| 14 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 15 | He was pawing the sand and throwing it about with his antlers . |
| 16 | No , ’ he muttered , rising easily to his feet and pulling her up with him . |
| 17 | Teachers are coming to look at the shelves and tying it up with what they do in class . |
| 18 | At the end of July , with Responsions successfully behind him as well as a happy celebratory birthday outing for Helen spent with Harry and Janet , Edward was still as hesitant as in his early letters to Hooton : ‘ May I bring a paper in manuscript and talk it over with you ? |
| 19 | The interviewer may ask a question and follow it up with ‘ prompts ’ or ‘ probes ’ to encourage the respondents to go into more depth with their answers . |
| 20 | ‘ Martinez pulled him out of the Hi-Flight contract and signed him up with Supersight . ’ |
| 21 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 22 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 23 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 26 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 27 | I turned to the gang and waved them on with my hand . |
| 28 | I 'd love to save the taxpayers some money and shoot it out with you . ’ |
| 29 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 30 | Michael threw his cigarette on the slush-filled pavement and ground it out with his boot . |