Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe my future , ’ she finally answered with a shudder . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 7 | We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes ! |
| 8 | Last weekend , as you will know by now , we briefly overlapped with a bevy of V.C.s from British Universities and the Director-General of the British council & his wife before we left Sian . |
| 9 | For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware . |
| 10 | An example will serve to illustrate this point : Leigh Hunt was a vegetarian , and praised ‘ in glowing words the cauliflower swimming in melted butter ’ ; Wordsworth wryly asked whether ‘ if by chance of good luck they ever met with a caterpillar , they thanked their stars for a delicious morsel of animal food ’ . |
| 11 | It eventually collided with a tree on the Lakes Estate in Milton Keynes after a high speed police chase over two miles . |
| 12 | ( Brian London , he observed , was the only boxer he ever knew with a cauliflower ae . ) |
| 13 | He always wrote with a biro . |
| 14 | He usually worked with a sub-cellarer who controlled the delivery of oats , barley and wheat from the Order 's farms , and supervised the actual grinding operations , as well as baking . |
| 15 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 16 | After a demonstration of this bit of electronic wizardry called Aladin Pro , I was surprised to discover it used Professor Bühlmann 's tables as its basis and , as well as an instruction manual , it also came with a set of Bühlmann tables . |
| 17 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 18 | He confidently stated with a smile , ‘ I know you will . |
| 19 | In fact , this was where Len had played as a boy , but he had clearly not lost his goalscoring knack , for he immediately obliged with a goal when he first wore the number nine shirt for the Palace against Gillingham in October 1953 . |
| 20 | He later confessed to having taken part in the theft of a quantity of goods including hi-fi equipment , a television , a leather jacket and a carriage clock , totalling value of £1,222 , from the bedsit next door to the one which he then shared with a fridge at Spitalhatch , Alton . |
| 21 | He then presented with a silver salver in recognition of all his achievements over the years . |
| 22 | He again ended with a girl , a different one this time and not in a boat . |
| 23 | The government did offer a reward of £30,000 for the Pretender 's capture , to which he cheekily replied with an offer of the same sum for ‘ The Elector of Hanover ’ , but the authorities in Scotland reacted feebly and reluctantly to the news . |