Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are harmless to the birds and fall off with weathering and as the ducks moult their feathers . |
| 2 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe she once fought the Scots and ended up with a bagpipe chanter in a nasty place . ’ |
| 4 | We Zed-bombed the barriers and went in with shielded skimmers . |
| 5 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 6 | He collected the goods and made off with them . |
| 7 | Finally , the back bones , who tackle the problems and get on with the work of solving them . |
| 8 | I ask you ! ) , where he put on a wetsuit in order to infiltrate the sewers and popped up with another long lens to take her picture . |
| 9 | Using a mixture of conventional and special toys , they 'll encourage children to express their anger and emotion ; hopefully learning how to heal the scars and carry on with their lives . |
| 10 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 11 | The wide , centuries-old oak floorboards on the landing creaked softly as Guy reached the top of the stairs and caught up with her . |
| 12 | The typical town house may well have tall windows — the perfect framework for a luxurious amount of fabric swagged across the top of the windows and gathered back with tasselled cords or tailored tie backs . |
| 13 | Thoroughly dry the inside of the seams and paint over with automotive body and seam sealer ( available in litre tins ) followed by underseal . |
| 14 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 15 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 16 | In this situation , the onus is on the band to sell all the tickets and to come out with the extra money . |
| 17 | The first day Emma had escorted Ruth to the gates and come back with a red nose . |
| 18 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 19 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 20 | Anyway , that evening her hair was swept up over her ears at the sides and fastened back with two tortoise-shell clips , her eyes seemed dark as dark , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 21 | One of his assistants had worked slowly and laboriously through the records and come up with half-a-dozen prints which looked at least similar to the ones taken from Paula Wilson . |
| 22 | Furniture was dragged into the streets and burned along with cars and buses . |
| 23 | But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns . |
| 24 | Bovelander wears the unofficial tag of being the sport 's top penalty corner exponent — no goalkeeper likes to face his thunderous shots — but in the game between Ireland and Holland earlier this month , it was van der Honoret who took the strikes and ended up with a hat-trick . |