Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 2 | PREMIER John Major dropped in for a chat with British troops in the Bosnian front line yesterday . |
| 3 | PREMIER John Major dropped in for a chat with British troops in the Bosnian front line yesterday . |
| 4 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 5 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 6 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 7 | He came back after a while with a tray bearing two plates . |
| 8 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 9 | A hint of child abuse may seem to be imparted by his account of a Gothic moment which came about during a walk with her father , at nightfall , in a setting of peasants and forests . |
| 10 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 11 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 12 | Ten thousand couples joined in through a TVlink-up with five other countries . |
| 13 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 14 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 15 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 16 | She seemed harassed and shop-worn , her greying hair tied up in a bun with a twisted elastic band . |
| 17 | He started out as a full-back with Bath and looked set for the glittering prizes . |
| 18 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 19 | I went in for a tackle with Brian Mooney and I came off worse because I broke my right leg . |
| 20 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 21 | ‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 23 | I grew up as a child with a longing to hunt big game , and from 1930 to 1940 I took every opportunity to do so ; for this I have no regrets . |
| 24 | When you went out on a tour with MainMan , you did n't eat in a Wimpey level of place , or stay in the Holiday Inn . |
| 25 | Occasionally she went out for a drink with Mick O'Shea , who was between girlfriends at the time and was happy to have Kathleen along as pleasant and undemanding company . |
| 26 | He was the only man I have ever known who once actually fell out of a hammock with laughing . |
| 27 | On the other hand , after a glance at ‘ Luck of the Legion ’ , I went about for a week with a white handkerchief tucked into the back of my cap , ordering the dog to about-face or wooing it with words of French culled from the strip ( ‘ Oo-ee , mon pet it ’ ) . |
| 28 | Jim leaned back in a tug-of-war with the long iron chain . |
| 29 | Even if the convert claims to have had a dream or religious experience , it is likely ( although perhaps not inevitable ) that it fitted in with a world-view with which he was previously acquainted ( through either the written or the spoken word ) , or else , that his experience will be interpreted by a believer in his new world-view . |
| 30 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |