Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 2 | From 1165 to 1299 , considerable prison building was being carried on throughout the country with Rochester being among the earliest in I 165 . |
| 3 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 4 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 5 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 6 | But I mean he 's sucked in at the minute with Linda cos she wants him to put his money with her as well you see . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 8 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 9 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 10 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 11 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 12 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 13 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 14 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 15 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 16 | Moreover , there is nothing in the 152-page report to satisfy the Opposition , industry or the few remaining Tory rebels that the Government has come out of the review with a national energy policy . |
| 17 | A review of the significance of natural contamination to planning and development in Great Britain is being carried out for the DOE with the aim of outlining in broad terms the relevance of the physical and chemical restraints on planning and development imposed by natural contamination . |
| 18 | The transaction 's commercial object was that the Prudential would acquire a development being carried out by the developers with funds provided by the Prudential . |
| 19 | Consequently , in 1983 a more comprehensive survey was carried out in the area with two objectives , — to map structure in reconnaissance form , and to look for evidence of Westphalian strata with a view to coal development . |
| 20 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 21 | Simply heated through in the oven with fresh butter , smokies are to me one of the most exquisite of our national specialities . |
| 22 | The beards come in a range of attractive colours ; pink to match your top , green , surfing blue , day-glo yellow and natural brown for those who desire a more rugged countenance , and once strapped on to the face with its Gortex-coated elastic strap , the beard provides the wearer with complete all-round chin exposure protection . |
| 23 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 24 | Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid . |
| 25 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 26 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 27 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 28 | ‘ Women like you turn my stomach ! ’ he grated harshly , and , clearly fed up to the teeth with her , ‘ I do n't know why I do n't just terminate your employment and get rid of you ! ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes the blockage may be visible from the top of the downpipe and can be hoicked out from the top with a length of stiff wire — try a straightened-out coat hanger . |
| 30 | Chuck glanced around inquiringly at Jacques Devraux , who had moved out into the plain with his son and Flavia Sherman . |