Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 2 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 3 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 4 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 5 | He had pressed on with the work , permitting no more interruption than common courtesy required , and had joined in the prayer of thanksgiving with a truly heartfelt gratitude not occasioned only by the woman 's departure . |
| 6 | His clients had pressed ahead with the claim against his companies and Mr Ashton told the Manx judge , John Corrin , that the matter had been settled out of court and Raper was prepared to admit judgment for £11.7m , which would be paid into a firm of local advocates . |
| 7 | But Mr Bush 's old agency , the CIA , suddenly produced the trial 's only real , live agent to blow apart a key assertion : that Noriega had fallen out with the cartel after his troops destroyed a state-of-the-art cocaine laboratory in Panama . |
| 8 | Leaden clouds had rolled in with the setting sun and as they neared Carvoeiro fat drops of rain began to splash on to the windscreen . |
| 9 | The cavity of her abdomen had dropped alarmingly with the removal of its contents . |
| 10 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 11 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 12 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 13 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 14 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 15 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 16 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 17 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 18 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 19 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 20 | Darkness had come prematurely with the deluge , the gloom summoned early by such an abundance of black cloud . |
| 21 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 22 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 23 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 24 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 25 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 26 | Fazal said that you had met up with the men and had started work . |
| 27 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 28 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 29 | After washing his wounded forearm and hand in the clear cold water , he tore the T-shirt into strips and bandaged the injuries , as he had done earlier with the knife wound in his leg . |
| 30 | Even before the securities houses announced their decision , the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei . |