Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] with a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
2 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
3 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
4 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
5 | did it and the chest wig comes off , you imagine with a penis , you go up with a penis and you , oh what 's that she says , what 's that ? |
6 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
7 | Be alright , start off with a pen and end up with a pencil . |
8 | The occasional blow-ups he has at Lennie are understandable , as Lennie is very difficult to look after , and George could be popular , settle down with a woman and get a good job . |
9 | follow up with a punch or … |
10 | one day when I said something he come up with a name but it did n't register |