Example sentences of "with [noun] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark with moisture and dotted with white flecks of snow . |
| 2 | Brush the top with milk and sprinkle with remaining cheese . |
| 3 | She lifted her multi-petticoated skirts and walked down with as much grace as she could manage , playing the part of Cinderella at her first ball , prevented from any sudden movement by the flattering silken wig whose curls were interlaced with pearls and fell in tumbling ringlets on to one breast . |
| 4 | Casserole with bacon and vegetables for seven or eight hours ; drain , wipe , sprinkle with pepper and turn in melted lard . |
| 5 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 6 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 7 | I left the hospital with Drew 's warning eating away at my subconscious , but I knew that I must keep faith with Toby and talk to Froggy 's sister . |
| 8 | Practice is given in using the telephone , coping with crises and working in various specialist areas ( eg courier , receptionist , travel agent , coach driver ) . |
| 9 | For DNaseI footprinting , the BglI-NaeI fragment ( nucleotides -594 to -291 ) was end-labelled , complexed with proteins and treated with increasing concentrations of DNaseI . |
| 10 | It was then to be infilled with debris and sealed with puddled clay to prevent water falling into workings below . |
| 11 | The complex PCR smear above the vector band was gel purified , treated with Geneclean and labeled by random hexamer priming ( 4 ) with 50 µCi each of [ α- 32 P ] dCTP and [ α- 32 P ] dATP . |
| 12 | Fairfax shakes hands with Tepilit and sits on small stool . |
| 13 | Until the 1930s , it was common to have a fig pie or pudding on Palm Sunday , based on stewed , dried figs thickened with cornflour and flavoured with mixed spice . |
| 14 | Subsequent biopsy specimens taken at 19 , 25 , and 41 months showed a quiescent cirrhosis with HBcAg and HBsAg in scattered hepatocytes ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 15 | Even a discussion about typography or paragraph spacing would be clouded with danger and twisted by subtle probings or innuendoes . |
| 16 | Looking back , it seems incredible that five desert-stained jeeps laden down with kit and crewed by ruffianly looking characters sporting beards , could get away with driving among enemy vehicles in broad daylight . |
| 17 | A contemporary cartoon by William Hogarth , now at the height of his reputation , showed the soldiers sent to Finchley being plied with drink and welcomed by grateful young women and a positive passion for raising funds to provide clothes and other comforts for the troops now swept the capital . |
| 18 | The flesh had had to be gouged out with a knife , and the wound swilled with water and coated with powdered herbs . |
| 19 | Particularly in hospital , communicating is the only means patients have of acquiring information about their illness , telling staff of problems , keeping in contact with relatives and relating to other patients . |
| 20 | There was , undeniably , a spirit of unrest abroad in the air , violence and lawlessness , and corruption in the City , law courts and local councils , while the streets were foul with detritus and thronging with derelict humanity . |
| 21 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 22 | We did n't have to look far before we found a hollow in the corner of a field , riddled with holes and scattered with fresh earth and droppings . |
| 23 | They beth splutter with anger and burst into silly giggles , wrestling . |
| 24 | ADOLESCENT — A person who is entering adolescence , the age following childhood , which is marked with puberty and followed by young adult age . |
| 25 | Five miles outside Machynlleth in central Wales the centre occupies a disused quarry which has been surrounded with windmills and filled with gleaming solarpanels . |
| 26 | His portrait and chair have been garlanded with marigolds and strewn with crimson rose petals . |
| 27 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |
| 28 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 29 | In the Falange 's case the principal issue was leadership ; when José Antonio Primo de Rivera , jailed in Alicante since before the start of the war , was executed in November 1936 , he left behind him a movement riddled with factionalism and cursed with second-rate would-be successors . |
| 30 | Then tissues were dehydrated with alcohol and embedded in epoxy resin . |