Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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1 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
2 | I 'd assumed she was writing in secret , as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends : being social . |
3 | And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic . |
4 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
5 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
6 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
7 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
8 | off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles . |
9 | Why , I remember being in a stagecoach , with the Apaches attacking , and out on the road with Henry Fonda and the Okies and shooting Tyrone Power while he was hanging up a picture … ’ |
10 | I will sometimes arrange to discuss things on three successive Mondays , for example , or three successive months perhaps , because you never have to take a quick decision in a business , and out of the talking with people who respond to your way of working the right answer very often comes — the decisions mostly take themselves . |
11 | Albert was reading in the library because Mr Morgan was coming to give him an extra Greek lesson and Hepzibah was busy , bustling in and out of the kitchen with no time for Carrie . |
12 | I shall have the prefects chase you down the corridor and out of the front-door with hockey-sticks ! |
13 | Building societies were able to exploit their retail savings resources to keep a constant competitive presence in mortgages , while the banks and centralised lenders acted more sporadically , dodging in and out of the market with limited-run special offers . |
14 | She used to go silently in and out of the room with a plate of food or a glass of beer . |
15 | If you could come out , and out of the room with me . |
16 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
17 | All this with hooker , Dave Kearsey off the pitch and out of the game with an injury . |
18 | Seve Ballesteros followed up yesterday 's quadruple-bogey seven by plummeting out of bounds at the par-three 15th and out of the tournament with two 75s , six over par . |
19 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
20 | A quick photo ( well it was very pretty even if it was small ) and back into the water with a few quick words something to the effect of ’ go send me your grand-daddy ’ . |