Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 3 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 4 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 5 | She picked up the menu and scanned it with the air of a gourmet . |
| 6 | You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America . |
| 7 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |
| 8 | A broader academic aim is to relate the effects identified to other processes of retail change and to compare them with the impact of other major developments . |
| 9 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 10 | It has joined forces with DeskStation Technology Inc and OPTi Inc to create the R4000PC RISCNT chip set and combine it with the OPTi 486EISAWB chip set to create a Windows NT desktop personal computer . |
| 11 | These replies were highly satisfactory to the King , who summoned Baldwin to the Palace at 3.15 p.m. and charged him with the task of forming a Government . |
| 12 | 15.38 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 7 should continue to participate extensively in widely varied group work in a range of groupings where they should now be encouraged to take on an increasingly responsible and , as appropriate , individual or independent role , eg by taking notes of the discussion and checking them with the group , representing group views in plenary sessions . |
| 13 | But they were quite happy to come along and discuss it with the parish council erm and . |
| 14 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 15 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 16 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
| 17 | If your butcher will let you have a veal bone , scrape the marrow from the bone and cook it with the onion . |
| 18 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |
| 19 | Some hours later , out she went again , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 20 | Next morning , when the glimmer in the skulls ' eyes had died away , she went off as before , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 21 | ‘ The odds were 7–2 that I would disappear with the money before we even started , even money that I 'd wait until the houses were built and leg it with the money , ’ recalls the London born-and-bred ‘ community builder ’ , with all the relish of a man who beat the bookies . |
| 22 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 23 | She was weeping now , and he knelt beside her , stiffly , and promised her with the touch of his hand on her shoulder that he would bring help . |
| 24 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 25 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 26 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 27 | When he found the man he threw the acid into his face and beat him with the hammer , fracturing his skull and his thumb . |
| 28 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 29 | Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ . |
| 30 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |