Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility .
2 But he did n't say whether I , I just continued with the cream , but it was the other night I just felt wee .
3 I once worked with a teacher who was called out six times in an hour to deal with comparatively trivial problems ( certainly trivial compared with the slaying of the Minotaur ) .
4 See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two .
5 I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche .
6 I also helped with the milking but was very slow .
7 At 18.20 , I again checked with the information office , to be told that the train was due soon .
8 I 've done that on trains , I 've done that on a tour bus quite recently , and of course the response you get can be very , very aggressive and that 's sometimes quite hard to handle but I take the precaution of always checking before I go somewhere that I 'm going to , I 'm going to be backed up , for example , erm before I go I purchase my holiday , I actually checked with the tour company that they did n't allow smoking on the buses
9 I never met with the fellow of her in my life .
10 They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience .
11 Digestion with PstI alone gave a single band of 10.4 kb with the ble probe , which also hybridised with the tubulin specific probe ( probe 1 , Fig. 1B ) .
12 This music , which sometimes came with the heat in his chest and sometimes separately , also released a flood of pleasurable emotion which Rolle identified with the love of God .
13 Many , not all , but many were trade unionists who instinctively sympathized with the plight of the miners .
14 Months later , in her first published novel , she finally broke with the dominance of abstraction ; and Under the Net dances lyrically and playfully around the philosophical idea suggested in its title .
15 ‘ Maybe my future , ’ she finally answered with a shudder .
16 Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left .
17 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
18 The toisechs ' and mormaers ' wives and daughters and sisters who always moved with the court would be waiting , and eager for news .
19 At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view .
20 A couple who once toyed with the idea of buying a door would rather do without than open up that time-consuming subject again .
21 Walker was watched by Roxburgh on Saturday when Hearts beat Dundee United at Tynecastle and was rated ‘ outstanding ’ by the national coach , who once worked with the goalkeeper at Scotland Youth level 12 years ago .
22 Rockcliff were 9–0 ahead at the interval following a push-over try , touched down by number eight Pete Orchard , that was converted by Alan Robertson , who also succeeded with a penalty .
23 She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine .
24 The description of Sycorax 's magic circulated and of course grew in the telling : scarred by fire , she now played with the element , burning circles of flame round creatures she had demanded Ariel procure for her ; she watched their panic , as they spun in their prison of flames .
25 She even arranged with the school authorities to have my salary paid directly into her own bank .
26 In silence they walked to the communal oven , and back , and she almost ran with the tray steaming with fragrant tomato and garlic to try to alert Rosa so she could prepare herself for his appearance .
27 This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities .
28 We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes !
29 We prayerfully proceeded with the purchasing process , only to have the property survey reveal a £5,000 defect .
30 " We then proceeded with the examination of the boys in the presence of the Mayor and several Ladies and Gentlemen of the Town , Mr. Prescott [ sic ] the Rector of Stockport being the Examiner ; and considering the recent re-endowment and establishment of the School , and that many of the children when first admitted were unable to read , and the majority very backward in their learning , we have much pleasure in reporting that the result of this first public examination was very satisfactory and that it was apparent that the Master and Usher had faithfully discharged their duties . "
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