Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose .
2 Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 .
3 This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine .
4 A couple of bread rolls perhaps , a little plastic pack of butter and a pack of paté , nicely finished off with a plastic knife and a paper serviette .
5 The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to .
6 The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce .
7 The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say .
8 Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’
9 One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him .
10 ‘ Actually they 're meat and coconut , just mixed together with a touch of coriander .
11 The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) .
12 That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance .
13 By now it was dark , with just two small desk lamps throwing clear-cut areas of light : one at a typist 's table halfway down the room where Maxim had finally met up with a pint of cold lager , one at the desk where Dann was listening on the telephone and sipping a small glass of neat gin .
14 Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent .
15 I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband .
16 At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power .
17 Mind you , I expect they 're already fixed up with a vet .
18 Whatever else they had sent , the south of England had not supported Siward with an army .
19 Leg furnishings are also best groomed daily with a metal comb , using downward strokes at an angle of 90 degrees to the leg .
20 He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather .
21 This volume was thus very largely taken up with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity , not as a second-order theological construction , but as sketching the basis within God himself of the possibility and actuality of his making of himself known to us in jesus Christ .
22 Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer .
23 If the documents in question are not sent out with a letter , but are signed at the conveyancer 's office , then it is important to set out a memorandum recording the date and time at which the document was signed and also how the document was explained to the client .
24 No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant .
25 Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them .
26 Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging .
27 Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’
28 The remainder of the format is usually taken up with a number of short fields , representing encoded processor registers or control signals .
29 She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside .
30 Under the 1979 Constitution it has an executive President , directly elected together with a Vice-President for a single four-year term .
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