Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 2 | As he bolted down his breakfast Chuck gazed around the clearing with delighted eyes . |
| 3 | She blinked and looked up , smiling , as Jim wandered into the room with a handful of X-rays . |
| 4 | Having evaded the other Fiats , Taylour headed for the carrier with his wounded TAG , where only prompt and skilful action by the ‘ Ark 's , surgeon prevented the loss of Howard 's leg . |
| 5 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 6 | But her words tumbled down the hill with him : ‘ … the son he never had … have to go home … |
| 7 | It would not come despite chances galore , especially for Reading and Trevor Senior — although in a heart-stopping moment for the home side Neil Clemmence headed against the bar with 10 seconds of normal time left — and the tie will resume at Welling tomorrow . |
| 8 | Then just occasionally , a larger flat bottomed boat came into the pier with exhausted mudcaked soldiers on her decks . |
| 9 | Bobby pounded on the door with his fists , but Enoch only responded with a Jewish incantation . |
| 10 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 11 | However , Gorbachev arrived at the plenum with his political standing newly boosted by the surprise announcement of the pact with Yeltsin and the other republican leaders [ see above ] , and this appeared to play a decisive role in the motion 's defeat . |
| 12 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 13 | A week or so later a Miss Symes walked up the drive with two whippets at heel . |
| 14 | A spokesman for West Mercia police said : ‘ Mr Haigh 's car flew into the air with the impact and it burst into flames when it hit the ground . |
| 15 | He felt that on the final day of their three-day visit the inspectors went through the files with the respective partners too quickly . |
| 16 | One of Rose 's tall silent brothers went around the tables with a bottle of wine and a bottle of whiskey but they drank sparingly . |
| 17 | Self-contained men in well-cut dark overcoats strode across the concourse with the air of being on their way from spending the afternoon in small Bayswater hotels with other men 's wives . |
| 18 | It proved to be too little , too late , however , and Labour emerged from the election with fewer MPs than at any time for 50 years . |
| 19 | Father Kipling emerged from the sacristy with a small , intrigued acolyte . |
| 20 | Deuce leaned into the bath with a curtain half drawn across it . |
| 21 | Kathleen emerged from the cloakroom with her things just as he was walking past , and she went with him out of the door . |
| 22 | David appeared in the doorway with a towel round his middle and the cordless phone in his hand . |
| 23 | Three guards ran into the room with their big guns and stood in front of Gog . |
| 24 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 25 | ‘ I stretched out in the back of the Mini and Rex travelled in the front with Willy at the wheel . |
| 26 | Thus adjured , Hector jumped off the bed with a short bark and trotted out of the room . |
| 27 | The foyer of the theatre was ablaze with lights , music drifting from behind closed doors carried to where Hari stood in the street with William at her side . |
| 28 | Bella plucked at the sheets with her crooked fingers . |
| 29 | An hour later Perdita sidled into the yard with wet hair to be confronted by Frances quivering with ecstatic disapproval . |
| 30 | Just before she had finished it , Annunziata came into the salon with a telegram addressed to Julia . |