Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule
2 The Gyggle forearms were covered all over with a regular pattern of tight ginger curlicues of hair .
3 Prick the log all over with a fine skewer and drizzle over the remaining Cointreau .
4 If red meat is really what you want , you would be even better off with a well-trimmed steak .
5 YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead .
6 If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One .
7 Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply .
8 If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird .
9 If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one .
10 It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly .
11 The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none .
12 Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ?
13 He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce .
14 But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all .
15 Sometimes this means they have more room for wheel toys , but often it gives them a chance to make their own den to hide away in with a favourite toy .
16 It took Northern Ireland to fourth place in the group , still in with a mathematical chance of reaching the finals in USA ‘ 94 .
17 Did she wade straight in with a blunt announcement or should she try to approach the subject from a more oblique angle which might encourage him to guess ?
18 ‘ And as for the Vancouver race , ’ she went on blithely , ‘ Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now , but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance .
19 The Midlands will make one change against the South-West at Bath , recalling the England hooker Brian Moore , who has twice withdrawn from the side late on with a twisted knee .
20 The leaves are pale green , fleshy , almost round with a wavy edge , up to 4ins ( 10cms ) long , borne on long , slender , translucent leaf-stalks .
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