Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table .
2 Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line .
3 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash .
4 The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun .
5 All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty .
6 They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and
7 In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion .
8 Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier .
9 There is a problem here in that much of the certainty and confidence with which the term has been used have collapsed along with the secure life-time employment which characterized industrial capitalism .
10 What was different was that there had been something else mixed in with the raw hunger blazing in his eyes .
11 Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " .
12 With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton .
13 Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages .
14 Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg .
15 TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night .
16 An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin .
17 There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE .
18 That might mean Lewis being fobbed off with a further promise of a title fight sometime in the next year or two , though he insists : ‘ I 'll fight this in the courts .
19 This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine .
20 This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine .
21 Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist .
22 Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving .
23 The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates .
24 Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop .
25 Another way of seeing Cutler 's position , especially his historical schema , is as a conflation of Marx and Marshall McLuhan ; ‘ mode of production ’ as organizing concept gets mixed up with the Canadian communication theorist 's ‘ medium is the message ’ philosophy , in which consciousness , cultural forms and social organization all derive primarily from the effects of the various media .
26 I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while …
27 We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’
28 The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time
29 However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain .
30 So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) .
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