Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employer sought to establish a paternalistic relationship with his workers and would not tolerate attempts by outsiders ( e.g. trade union officials ) to participate in negotiations . |
| 2 | Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham . |
| 3 | This bad timing is typical for Deirdre , who once tried to kill a faithless lover with an ashtray , but succeeded only in setting the hotel room on fire . |
| 4 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 5 | PC Peter Betts was on a training run when he crashed into a hedge as he tried to avoid a head-on collision with a lorry . |
| 6 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 7 | Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick . |
| 8 | Yet after 1750 this group came to acquire a special connection with the provinces through its links with the country banks . |
| 9 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 10 | She 'd made a helpless gesture with one beautifully manicured hand . |
| 11 | I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon . |
| 12 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 14 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 15 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 16 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
| 17 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 18 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
| 20 | The evaluators observed one course which was devoted to showing teachers from prospective Major Project schools a variety of worksheets , project books and software on which they might choose to spend some of their grant , and another in which nationally known figures ( Royston McHugh from the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and Ron Mitson from the Abraham Moss Centre ) sought to inspire a good attendance with the philosophy of a more broadly conceived RBL . |
| 21 | On Nov. 21 , 1989 , the two largest confederations of non-communist trade unions , Sohyo ( the General Council of Trade Unions ) and Rengo ( the Japan Private Sector Trade Union Confederation ) merged to form a new group with an estimated membership of 9,000,000 . |
| 22 | For the first time since the war began , Americans at home began to feel a personal link with one of the great land battles of the Western Front . |
| 23 | On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money . |
| 24 | A woman officer also recently admitted having a close relationship with a prisoner during rehearsals for a play which Mr. Lodge produced . |
| 25 | He collaborated closely with the Russian ambassador , Count Ostern , and worked to secure a defensive alliance with Sweden ( 1766 ) , safeguard British trade , and prevent France 's resurgence in the Baltic by supporting the party of the Caps in their resistance to the pro-France Hats . |
| 26 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 27 | In 1947 Claud decided to make a complete break with his past and they settled near her family home in Youghal in a derelict Georgian mansion belonging to an American policeman which they rented for £150 a year . |
| 28 | In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces . |
| 29 | at first tried to compete by introducing its own motor bus services , but then managed to conclude a non-competing agreement with the UndergrounD Group , so a new tramway holding company was set up , in which both would hold shares . |
| 30 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |