Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 2 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 3 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 4 | For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires . |
| 5 | The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel . |
| 6 | Then he started to foul up the air with stinging yellow smoke . |
| 7 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 8 | When all details of the front page set-up were agreed , and Bill Adair had tightened up the form with his screw-lock , the plate was wheeled on its steel trolley to the back where the asbestos mat was impressed . |
| 9 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 10 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |
| 11 | And a shock came when , on 12 March , the large picture was sent on its way to Bohemia ; the transport firm in Decin had loaded up the lorry with gas containers from Belgium . |
| 12 | He had paid off the mortgage with ease when at the height of his success . |
| 13 | Labour 's Scottish Executive attempted to dampen down the controversy with a report which imposed new machinery , such as new standing orders , to tackle what executive chair Anne McGuire described as ‘ old-fashioned ’ practices . |
| 14 | Labour 's Scottish executive attempted to dampen down the controversy with a report which imposed new machinery , such as standing orders , to tackle what the executive chairwoman , Anne McGuire , described as old-fashioned practices . |