Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had a colour put in last autumn which was growing out , so Chris decided to enhance the natural warmth of the hair and add additional shine using a non-commitment colour , Natural Dark Blonde , mixed with persimmon from the Colour Touch range . |
| 2 | There was a smell of wax polish in the air mixed with lavender from the downstairs cloakroom . |
| 3 | Her twin children , bitterly cold , fiddled with their sherry , which had been mixed with whisky in the decanter by mistake , and took the reporter 's side . |
| 4 | She had blood on her face , dried-up and mixed with grit from the road . |
| 5 | I am assailed with feelings of irritation mixed with amusement at the number of pilots who , despite cheerfully paying many hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their chosen hobby , carp on about having to fork out three or four quid over the odds in selected landing fees , or as in the case of correspondent K. Foster £46 for a medical combined with an ECG . |
| 6 | ‘ What was it , McAllister ? ’ he said , his voice hardly recognisable , love mixed with anger at the wretch who had violated her . |
| 7 | The boats are designed with weights in the keel so they ca n't capsize . |
| 8 | It is a well-known fact that ferrets have mated with polecats in the wild . |
| 9 | The memories of my childhood were suffused with images of the beauty of the landscape and the peaceful atmosphere of the island . |
| 10 | CIESPAL 's new studios and training centre were installed with support from the government of Ecuador and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Germany . |
| 11 | Raskolnikov has of course outraged the human being in himself too ; the pad pad pad of the hunter and hunted relationship with Porfiry is intertwined with self-pursuit to the point where the murderer actually makes the running in the second of the three long interviews , arriving unsent-for and demanding interrogation ‘ according to the rules ’ , if interrogation there must be ; which leads Porfiry to exclaim : ‘ Good heavens ! |
| 12 | When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband . |
| 13 | The paper was ‘ embellished with drafts of the building and kilns erected for that purpose ’ , and these were reproduced in the Dictionary . |
| 14 | Therefore the simple observation that the parent-child bond is where we find family duty and obligation most clearly expressed has to be modified with reference to the gender of the participants , and with reference to a particular cultural context . |
| 15 | A further possible way of reconciling the two accounts is to say that both express important elements in kin relations , but each has to be modified with reference to the other . |
| 16 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 17 | The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu . |
| 18 | Record numbers are being caught with fingers in the till — like ex-Mirror chief Robert Maxwell . |
| 19 | Hall 's office at Dalhousie is decorated with souvenirs of the drilling expeditions he has since helped organise . |
| 20 | The result had as much to do with romanticism as historical accuracy , with simulated timber framing , and a Gothic chimneypiece decorated with scenes of the King 's escape . |
| 21 | Behind the bar the wall was decorated with postcards of the Pope and the Madonna . |
| 22 | The Smoked Trout & Parma Ham Mousse ( see p18 ) is merely decorated with slices of the ham and the Carbonnade of Beef is enriched by using diced ham instead of bacon . |
| 23 | The snake is sometimes decorated with signs of the zodiac . |
| 24 | The sala terrena is decorated with giants from the Braun workshop and is visible from the road as part of the reception area of the embassy . |
| 25 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 26 | The Rectory children were being confined with difficulty in the pew beneath a brass plate Alexandra could not read without a pang , commemorating a young man who had died in the Charge of the Light Brigade , nearly sixty years ago , when he was only 22 , her own age . |
| 27 | However , during all those years of ‘ cut your carbohydrates ’ advice , which impressed itself so much on the British public that many people are still overwhelmed with guilt at the sight of a slice of bread or a potato , all high-carbohydrate foods were grouped together as culprits in causing this rebound hunger which led to excessive eating . |
| 28 | ‘ When I read the Medau News , ‘ she says , ‘ I am completely overwhelmed with admiration at the way my Medau colleagues have created a Medau world in this country — far beyond any pipe dreams Molly and I could have had in the early years of struggle . |
| 29 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 30 | Where necessary the ventral view is supplemented with drawings of the disk armament , arm spines and lateral views of the arms . |