Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] with the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At once he seemed to merge with the green-black forms of the room .
2 They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China .
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4 What had all this got to do with the cruel terrors of Spiderglass that kept Mars-U as a garden of torture ( she could n't even think of the garden-master ; somehow he just kind of disappeared from her mind ) so it could pluck poor students into its web of inhumanity ?
5 FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge
6 They needed to couple with the big dogs .
7 The females usually chose to spawn with the red-bellied males .
8 The spy-glass , though splendidly gimballed to deal with the worst vagaries of pitching and rolling , was quite incapable of coping with even the mildest vibration which , more often than not , produced a very fuzzy photograph indeed .
9 They preferred to stick with the old ways .
10 However , because the Catholics had little share in the city 's wealth creation , they continued to identify with the nationalist tendencies of the southern Irish majority .
11 The companies in many cases had to persevere with the original arrangements , often against long-term best interests .
12 When they first had to negotiate with the Burmese leaders , Attlee , Pethick-Lawrence and their colleagues thought they were dealing with a bunch of rustics , uncouth , and ignorant of the ways of high politics .
13 We also had to deal with the old issues too .
14 It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader .
15 The Nez Perce reached the Missouri on 23rd September , where they asked to trade with the fifteen soldiers at Cow Island Landing supply station .
16 During 1990 the government attempted to deal with the economic consequences of massive Soviet immigration , which presented a more serious threat to the Israeli economy than the Gulf crisis .
17 The orang caretakers asked Wartaputra to honour his agreement and refused to cooperate with the new plans .
18 She wanted to live with the foster parents she lived with at the age of two .
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