Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 2 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 3 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 4 | The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) . |
| 5 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 6 | The event tees off with an 18-hole game , followed in the afternoon by an 18-hole medal competition for the Campbell Dawson Trophy . |
| 7 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 8 | He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time . |
| 9 | Death Becomes Her is a glitzy , glossy affair which glides through its paces in vapidly enertaining Zemeckis style , but a movie which starts out with a huge talent to amuse loses its impetus . |
| 10 | The serious student of animal behaviour starts out with a basic premise , namely that every spot of colour , every strange posture , every tiny movement that an animal makes , has some special meaning . |
| 11 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |
| 12 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 13 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 14 | PREMIER LEAGUE KICKS OFF WITH A BIG RIP-OFF |
| 15 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 16 | Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements . |
| 17 | You make an interesting comment about your wife 's experiences that ones ends up with a private practice . |
| 18 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |
| 19 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
| 20 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
| 21 | But if the exchange is unequal , one chromosome ends up with an extra copy of the segment and the other without the particular segment . |
| 22 | ‘ This means the muscles go flat instead of round and the butcher ends up with an inferior eye muscle . |
| 23 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
| 24 | They might introduce themselves as being the best mate of a particular fan or as the one who hangs around with a particular group . |
| 25 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 26 | Mid position is Active ( normal ) mode , where treble and bass can actually be added to the sound ( the circuit powers up with a large leap in volume ) . |
| 27 | Yes , erm , the , the most archetypal one is , is the miser of course , who , who turns up with a stale box of chocolates and an ingratiating smile , and proceeds to eat you out of house and home , and then when you 're at the supermarket , disappears mysteriously at the checkout , and returns when you 've paid with a , a bumper bag a crisps that he keeps in his bedroom when , in case he gets peckish at night . |
| 28 | As Steve Bevan , editor of Sales Promotion magazine says : ‘ Companies are now using sales promotion on a more strategic basis , ensuring it ties in with an overall brand strategy . |
| 29 | The same applies in Devon , Dorset and Cornwall as Westcountry TV takes over with a two-minute slot explaining the change . |
| 30 | Each morning at around 6 am the BBC opens up with an uninterrupted series of Open University films . |