Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of a settlement worked out with the help of the US Environment Protection Agency , the two mills will pay $5.8 million in fines and spend more than $50 million on reducing the levels of dioxins and other toxic compounds they discharge into the Pacific Ocean . |
| 2 | When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use . |
| 3 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 4 | Then , as the light was going , a convoy rolled in with the pool — just too late for them to get any pictures . ’ |
| 5 | He notices , for example , that Dickens started writing Barnaby Rudge , a novel shot through with the theme of difficult father-son relationships , at a time when his own spendthrift father was forging his son 's signature as a means of acquiring credit . |
| 6 | When a servant came up with the telephone , and apologised for breaking up the dancing couple , he could n't know how relieved they both were . |
| 7 | At the end of dinner , a servant came in with the farmer 's one-year-old son in her arms . |
| 8 | They did not enter into lengthy explanations about the sanitary and social implications of such behaviour , because the recruit had more than likely spent his entire life spitting on the floor at home ; the recruit responded to an order backed up with the threat of violence . |