Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oslear , a one-time Grimsby stevedore , had privately put pressure on the International Cricket Council to confirm Lamb 's claim that the Pakistanis tampered with the ball during the one-day match at Lord 's nearly a month ago . |
| 2 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 3 | Television watching should be selective , and you should try to discuss the programmes watched with the patient , or relate them to pictures and stories in books or magazines , so that some intellectual stimulus is involved . |
| 4 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 5 | The same minority report emphasized , however , that the authors concurred with the majority in their disapproval of surrogacy for convenience , and that the criminal law should be invoked to prevent agencies concerned with surrogacy arrangements being run for profit . |
| 6 | The marines chatted with the vigilantees for a time and exchanged cigarettes with them . |
| 7 | Outside the hut the leaves and the grasses sparkled with the brightness of the shower , the air was fresh and sweet with released scents and the song of birds , and then , distantly but distinctly , almost as they emerged , came from very far away , somewhere to west and south of them , the sound of a horn . |
| 8 | Thenceforward , until the Slovenes broke with the Habsburg empire and joined the newly formed Serb-Croat-Slovene state in 1918 , the fortunes of this small Slav community were linked to those of Austria . |
| 9 | Tempers in the kitchens rose with the temperature as ovens burned and broth smiled on . |
| 10 | as the fan , the fats congealed with the frost |
| 11 | The broadcasters ' contention that the directives conflicted with the duty of the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority to preserve ‘ due impartiality ’ misappreciated the nature of that duty . |
| 12 | The disclosures coincided with the start of a regional tour today by John Major , anxious to drum up greater financial support and bolster sagging party morale . |
| 13 | The muscles ached with the strain of trying to balance on the constantly shifting deck . |
| 14 | Heavy spending by the UNP government prior to the presidential elections in December 1988 had contributed to the unsustainable rise in public spending with an accompanying increase in the budget deficit , in defiance of the agreements reached with the IMF . |
| 15 | The period between the wars coincided with the remainder of his working life and was highly formative for Britain 's later intelligence system . |
| 16 | The England pace attack laboured in vain yet again , and what was even more worrying was that the selectors toyed with the idea of once more playing four quick bowlers . |
| 17 | Mum was pleased as punch when she saw what we 'd got , particularly when the men arrived with the brass bedsteads and a red striped flock mattress . |
| 18 | The men rose with the ladies . |
| 19 | The final stages of the negotiations coincided with the presence of Michael Clapham as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr as Chief Officer , both of whom played influential parts in the process . |
| 20 | In the Forest of Dean the verderers sat with the deputy Constable of St Briavels to hold attachment courts at Kensley every six weeks ; fines were imposed for hunting with long bows , and for offences against the vert such as cutting great branches , rooting up hollies , hawthorns and hazels , and collecting ‘ Oke-cornes ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 22 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 23 | When the police regrouped with the intention of holding a railway bridge , pickets constructed blazing barricades out of the remnants of scrapped cars , telegraph poles and a portakabin to prevent a second advance . |
| 24 | We have a convoy ! ’ yelled the UN official Larry Hollingworth over a radio link from Srebrenica to Sarajevo as the vehicles arrived with the commander of UN troops in Bosnia , Gen Philippe Morillon , at their head . |
| 25 | As the factors associated with the presence of these hypersensitive sites are not limiting , recent advances in in vitro footprinting ( 61 ) should permit the dissection of which particular proteins are binding to the DH site sequences indicated in this work . |
| 26 | The receivers proceeded with the receivership and managed to repay the bank in full . |
| 27 | It declared that ultimate responsibility for the killings lay with the de Klerk government which provided financial , security and political support to Ciskei and which had failed to restrain Gqozo . |
| 28 | At the outset these honours were merely purchased , but in later creations the augmentations came with the grants . |
| 29 | The next day the headlines gloated with the kind of effusive unction that only the English press can muster . |
| 30 | A recent example of the first category appeared in a contract for the construction of offshore oil exploration facilities in the North Seatechnical disputes about whether the work or the facilities complied with the contract were to be referred to an expert . |