Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 2 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 3 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 4 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 5 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 6 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 7 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 8 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 9 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 10 | I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional . |
| 11 | If it was someone coming in with a nasty attitude really filthy , scruffy , dirty , no fixed address because they lived in er er , an old wagon some where |
| 12 | However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin . |
| 13 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 14 | I tackle up with a through-action carbon rod , 11ft long , a fixed-spool reel carrying 5lb b.s. line to which a size 2 hook is tied direct . |
| 15 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 16 | I am pleased to have ladies since they are more comfortable to be with and understand better the difficulties I labour under with a young baby and poor help and no husband constantly at my elbow . |
| 17 | I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love . |
| 18 | I end up with a flat battery about once a week even though the dynamo , heavy duty battery and voltage regulator have been replaced . |
| 19 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 20 | There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock . |
| 21 | It was the last lesson of the day and I could n't help it , but I come out with a big burp in the middle of the lesson and she goes , ‘ Fay , are you feeling all right ? ’ and I says , ‘ Yes Miss , of course I am ’ , and then she goes to me when I did it again , ‘ FAY ! ’ and I goes , ‘ It 's all right ’ , I goes , ‘ Pardon me , Miss . |
| 22 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 23 | I tackled up with a simple running bullet stopped two inches from the size 6 hook . |
| 24 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 25 | Yet because I could not bear to lie where I was and chance being seen , I jumped up with a great bound and confronted her . |
| 26 | I ended up with a two-year prison sentence with another nine months suspended . |
| 27 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 28 | Death Becomes Her is a glitzy , glossy affair which glides through its paces in vapidly enertaining Zemeckis style , but a movie which starts out with a huge talent to amuse loses its impetus . |
| 29 | Col. and Mrs Travers in Shiplake had a team of thirty , or so , helpers for their Garden Party , which started off with a magnificent anonymous donation of £300 . |
| 30 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |