Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 2 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 3 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 4 | To put the icing on the cake , Newsboy — that 's Charles Fawcus ( left ) — weighed in with a 29-1 double yesterday through Jdaayel and Our Rita ( 5-1 ) . |
| 5 | The Trades Union Congress weighed in with a Green Charter , which included the right to hold ‘ green strikes ’ over issues like the importation of toxic wastes . |
| 6 | Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner . |
| 7 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
| 8 | Isay staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple and gore clinging to his staff . |
| 9 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 10 | If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 12 | The sound , in itself small , was magnified by the lofty roof , and startled him painfully , and he drew back with a bounding heart into the shadows of the triforium as a man stepped into the church . |
| 13 | When he decided he had finished he drew back with a reluctant groan , his eyes watchful , devoid of any feeling other than the insatiable one of sexual hunger . |
| 14 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 15 | CCG staff on site helped out with a weekly briefing . |
| 16 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |
| 17 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 18 | West Germany 's defender who played on with a broken collar bone in 1970 ( see taking it too seriously and injuries ) . |
| 19 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 20 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
| 21 | The ground is white , and on it women 's skin is outlined in red , men 's and boys ' in black filled in with a pinkish colour , the same distinction as on the Thermon metopes ( above , p. 13 ) , and clothes are in flat washes of clear , bright red and blue . |
| 22 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 23 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 24 | One day Aileen came in with a black eye . |
| 25 | Owners , whose holiday brands include Sovereign , Enterprise and Falcon , had sought an alliance with German-owned Thomas Cook to cement its position in the competitive UK market , but fast-growing and highly-profitable Airtours came in with a rival bid to spark off weeks of rhetoric and activity which finally ended yesterday . |
| 26 | The sea came in with a weightless rush and trickled between dry rocks . |
| 27 | But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club . |
| 28 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 29 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 30 | But it was Vose who came through with a strong finish on the final circuit to claim second place , but he could not match Pearson 's strength on the hills . |