Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau .
2 A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face .
3 During the half-halts , be strong with leg and positive with a blocking hand , then relax and sit quietly with a light contact , repeating this until the penny finally drops .
4 I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back .
5 Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed .
6 Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage .
7 The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans .
8 We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party .
9 It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities .
10 The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end .
11 When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding .
12 The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture .
13 The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life .
14 Left : The Regency dining table and chairs were bought at auction and combine well with the Georgian desk
15 Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life .
16 But the walls themselves were constructed with an infill of mud bricks , set in mud mortar , and smoothed over with a beautiful mud plaster .
17 But actually there is one important thing they can do which would certainly improve world economic prospects : resist the temptation to put up new protectionist barriers , and push ahead with a speedy conclusion of the Uruguay round of trade talks .
18 The support of business could bring about a review of 16–19 education with the intention of integration of the pre-vocational and applied together with the academic curriculum .
19 I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl .
20 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 .
21 While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports .
22 Wild Ethiopian coffee is spicy and blends well with a rich coffee such as Colombian or Javanese .
23 To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush .
24 Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and beat well with a wooden spoon for 1–2 minutes until the mixture is smooth .
25 And ending up with a thumping great lie .
26 She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action .
27 In this situation , the onus is on the band to sell all the tickets and to come out with the extra money .
28 Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack .
29 It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers .
30 And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements .
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