Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 3 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 4 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 5 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 6 | Bloomsbury House helped to get him off with a warning , but there was no further contact . |
| 7 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 8 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 9 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
| 10 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
| 11 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 12 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 13 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 14 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 15 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 16 | Tying meant fastening him in with a feeding tray . |
| 17 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 18 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 19 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 20 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 21 | It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance . |
| 22 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 23 | Shama had joined us along with the Sheikha 's mother , a tall , fine-boned woman with compassionate , intelligent eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ Basically , the previous owners had messed it about with no idea of period style or taste ’ , says Peter . |
| 25 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 26 | But now it was over , and Isay had rejoined them along with a trio of wounded Hearthwares who were being tended in the hall below with their armour stripped off beside them . |
| 27 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 28 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 29 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 30 | Someone , at some stage , had worked me over with a tool , a spike or a blunt shiv . |