Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] 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 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 .
3 In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser .
7 ‘ 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 ! ’
8 A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army .
9 Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ .
10 Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
11 Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
12 She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do .
13 The third round is generally regarded as a consolidation round , and this is borne out in the figures with an average of 68.3 before the final charge to victory .
14 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
15 Any electrical appliances should be pointed out to the guests with instructions on use if necessary .
16 Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children .
17 The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover .
18 This concept has played the leading role in the development of the modern law but the question of definition has tended to be passed over in the cases with little analysis .
19 A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences .
20 The children are left out on the plains with a few goats from a very young age .
21 When the news hit the factory floor , young girls were sent off to the stores with requisitions to get a good look at the loincloth apprentice .
22 Armoured Hearthwares with red sashes belting their middles laboured on to the battlements with the defender 's weapons pounding them like smith 's hammers on an anvil .
23 In each she could happily have hopped off into the side-streets with their displays of over-priced gauds but Nils had insisted on timing things right .
24 Just shoved up on the shelves with no order or reason .
25 They felt that they were ‘ not getting on ’ with their craft work or were ‘ held back by the students with severe learning difficulties ’ .
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