Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 2 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 3 | At her farewell , GM gave a vote of thanks and presented with a nest of mahogany tables on behalf of the company . |
| 4 | It was raining on Jimale , Chola and Mina had taken their claw-shaped wooden rakes and gone with a group of women to gather pine-needles in the forest . |
| 5 | Suggestions for cover illustrations , with captions and labelled with the manuscript number , are welcome . |
| 6 | Radioactively labelled oligonucleotides I , II and III were incubated with F9 nuclear proteins and irradiated with an UV-lamp ( 253 nm ) for 5 minutes on ice . |
| 7 | She ran down the track as if the hounds of death were at her heels and struggled with the door of the jeep , snatched at the steering-wheel , fumbled with the ignition . |
| 8 | The sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 9 | Gober 's exhibition comprises four rooms wallpapered with the artist 's own designs and filled with the sculptures for which he has become celebrated : several untitled wax legs with candles , the wax hermaphroditic torso , the wedding dress , the bags of cat litter and the drains sunk into the gallery 's walls . |
| 10 | Religious nonconformity remained strong in these areas and combined with the anti-landlord , anti-aristocratic feeling which was the basis of historic liberalism . |
| 11 | Dieter thrust his hands into his pockets and traced with the toe of one foot the outline of a damp patch on the concrete surround of the pool . |
| 12 | On the Nottinghamshire coalfield the strike at Harworth against the breakaway " Spencer Union " was also led by Communists and ended with the imprisonment of one of their leaders , Mick Kane . |
| 13 | ‘ We made two basic errors and paid with a goal each time , and I 'm not happy about that . ’ |
| 14 | In the epicentre of the maelstrom , with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie , surprisingly unmoved . |
| 15 | Miles rose to his feet and fiddled with the knobs of his gleaming fixed-spool reel . |
| 16 | Your wrists are tied to your ankles , a metal bar is passed under your knees , you are lifted up , hanging from this bar , a wet floor cloth is placed over your face so that you can not breathe , and your head and the soles of your feet and beaten with a leather belt . |
| 17 | In the salon where they were all sitting after dinner over glasses of brandy and half-finished cups of coffee , the first courageous guest rose to his feet and bowed with a smile to the lady of the house . |
| 18 | Electrically activated signals worked by small switches and interlocked with the points they controlled were first introduced by Sykes at Penge in 1875 and were the forerunner of large electro-mechanical signalling systems in which electrically actuated signals controlled by small slides were introduced , with lever-controlled points actuated by rodding . |
| 19 | A supplementary Chairman 's Statement incorporating financial forecasts and projections and issued with a view to deterring further takeover attempts . |
| 20 | The trial lasted twenty-five days , during which the 22-year-old woman stated that she was held down , raped several times and assaulted with a broom . |
| 21 | He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon . |
| 22 | The jury withdrew for two hours and returned with a majority verdict of ‘ not guilty ’ . |
| 23 | Coal hole covers were made in different patterns and embossed with the name of the foundry ; outside older houses , the bootscrapers can often still be seen . |
| 24 | The resulting expert system was built from historical data from 15 boards and tested with the data from a further 3 examples and gave similar results to the first expert system built . |
| 25 | Interviews were peppered with New Age buzz-words and swamped with the kind of ‘ Save the World ’ fervour that has earned globe-trotting polymaths like Sting and Peter Gabriel universal derision . |
| 26 | He reviewed warnings and advice issued to the public over recent years and concluded with a plea for interdisciplinary research on food . |
| 27 | The mix is baked for 20 minutes in moulds and served with a vegetable cream sauce , lentils , and sautéed mushrooms . |
| 28 | Pooled estimates of treatment differences were calculated for all 49 studies and compared with the estimate derived from the 16 studies that presented standard deviations for either the 17 or 21 item Hamilton scale . |
| 29 | Unless used on ‘ Byelaw 30 ’ cisterns and fitted with a downturn in the operating lever ( so the float can easily be adjusted ) , piston-type ballvalves are no longer allowed on cold water cisterns unless they are fitted with a double-check valve . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have been nice to have worked through the issues with the GPs and negotiated with the patient . ’ |