Example sentences of "[vb past] with [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our return DMU entering the station as we disembarked with the comfortable words from our guard — ‘ No hurry , now — it has to wait for me ! ’ |
| 2 | His conscience warred with the whispered promises of the semi-sentient sword . |
| 3 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 4 | The white woman knelt with the black women in a circle in the moonlight . |
| 5 | One was regional : the metropolitan dynamism of the South-east and the Midlands compared with the sluggish tendencies of Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 6 | The raiding force were then assembled at Falmouth , and on the afternoon of 26 March , a Thursday , they sailed with the khaki uniforms of the soldiers out of sight below decks . |
| 7 | Beautifully restored façades of the older buildings melded with the elegant lines of the newcomers standing shoulder to shoulder ; hotels nestled against glittering jewellery stores , elegant fur shops stood adjacent to brightly lit American-style fast-food bars , and fashion boutiques vied with the eye-catching displays of porcelain and glass in neighbouring shop windows . |
| 8 | But February came with the lowest temperatures for years and March was not much better . |
| 9 | The first onslaught came with the ambitious attempts of Cardinal Wolsey to found his new Oxford college , financed from the seizure of the property of smaller monasteries and convents . |
| 10 | The firm flourished with the good times of the sixties and Cedric started the stationer 's as a speculation , but it at once did well . |
| 11 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
| 12 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 13 | It was the argument of writers such as Offe ( e.g. 1975b ) that such demands on the state could lead to state policies that conflicted with the other needs of capitalist development . |
| 14 | This was not merely because the new function of the bourgeois wife , to show off the capacity of the bourgeois husband to keep her in leisure and luxury , conflicted with the old functions of actually running a household , but also because her inferiority to the man must be demonstrable : |
| 15 | While Eden manqués wrestled with the finer points of parliamentary style a wild man struggled to his feet from the bottom stream of the fifth form . |
| 16 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 17 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 18 | At 1 p.m. it rode round Madrid with the other Councils in full dress to restore order and in the following days it co-operated with the French authorities in the collection of arms . |
| 19 | Asked whether clerics really could take authoritative decisions on issues such as oil production , he replied with the practised gestures of a man used to presenting arguments to the sceptical : ‘ Islam can solve all difficulties ; it was so in the past and it will be the same in the future . ’ |
| 20 | As well as meeting Gorbachev , Yeltsin and other leaders Major met with the Prime Ministers of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , and with Leyla Gordievsky , the wife of Oleg Gordievsky who defected in 1985 [ see p. 34005 ] . |
| 21 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 22 | When Coleman checked with the American manufacturers in Indiana , he discovered that they were really tank engines which Talar had somehow scrounged from the Israeli Army . |
| 23 | The East Gate of Karak Eight Peaks lay several miles inside the pass through a broad side valley paved with ancient stones and studded with the ruined tombs of Dwarf ancestors . |
| 24 | Nothing could be more splendid than the decoration of the Cathedral — velvet and ermine — gold and silver — flags and hangings of all colours were combined and harmonized with the splendid costumes of the Clergy , the uniforms civil and military , and the magnificent dresses of the ladies . |
| 25 | Here he argued with the European leaders of Protestantism , from Karl Barth downwards , over the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant idea of the Church . |
| 26 | Pons agreed that Jones originally argued with the theoretical aspects of their proposal but later became convinced by them and only then offered cooperation . |
| 27 | Her younger daughter remembered them clustered round her chair as she talked and , as someone said , ‘ toyed with the frayed edges of a bun ’ . |
| 28 | Yesterday , as the sun broke through on the peaceful setting of Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh they and others who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco and made the ultimate sacrifice , were remembered . |
| 29 | Beautifully restored façades of the older buildings melded with the elegant lines of the newcomers standing shoulder to shoulder ; hotels nestled against glittering jewellery stores , elegant fur shops stood adjacent to brightly lit American-style fast-food bars , and fashion boutiques vied with the eye-catching displays of porcelain and glass in neighbouring shop windows . |
| 30 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |