Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knocked courteously with the hammer 's hilt . |
| 2 | The sensor pods had succeeded in pinpointing an area of the planet 's surface that correlated exactly with the Doctor 's mysterious directions . |
| 3 | On the contrary , Mulroney , himself a bilingual Quebecker , although of Irish stock , worked constructively with the province 's premier Robert Bourassa . |
| 4 | In the bar , where the staff gently chided the occasional American for sacrilegiously ordering ‘ a Bushmills with Coke ’ , the hi-tech which accompanies the modern golf tournament contrasted quaintly with the club 's superb gallery of historic old golfing photographs and prints . |
| 5 | The children 's loss but the fault lay more with the SCO 's insensitivity to a cultural difference than to a lack of religious awareness . |
| 6 | This contrasted sharply with the parents ' belief that the child 's poor behaviour at home was a consequence of the latter perceiving himself to have been rejected by the family because he had been sent to a boarding school . |
| 7 | Songs about freedom , relationship breakdown and poverty were performed in a relaxed , almost innocent style that contrasted dramatically with the audience 's whooping and prancing . |
| 8 | In magisterial style , Green dealt peremptorily with the committee 's inflexible attitude , reminding them that on every substantive issue he had fully discussed its possible implications with them . |
| 9 | The first part of the report dealt briefly with the school 's history , philosophy , environment and accommodation , parents and community , capitation , staffing , policy and decision-making structure , curriculum , multicultural education , equal opportunities , language across the curriculum , assessment of pupils and personal and social education . |
| 10 | The ‘ whooping ’ dancers clashed violently with the band 's deliberate down-market visuals . |
| 11 | In his Edward Thomas ( 1937 ) , Judge Robert P. Eckert — who corresponded frequently with the poet 's maternal aunt , Margaret Townsend , and his youngest brother , Julian — describes the father as a ‘ practical , self-made man … a short , stocky welshman , a dark , good-looking man ’ . |
| 12 | With the scarf joint such breakages were minimised since the headstock section was grafted on so that its grain ran parallel with the neck 's pitch . |
| 13 | But Thursday 's friendly gesture sat oddly with the government 's ban on publishing the report . |