Example sentences of "[vb past] with [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 2 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 3 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 4 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 5 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 6 | In March , as in past years , we had two members in the delegation that met with the all party committee for pensions in the House of Commons where we raised many of the matters that are worrying our generation including community care . |
| 7 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 8 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
| 9 | So , Meldrews syndrome was well and truly evident , with various profanities splattered with a few ‘ … believe it 's . |
| 10 | The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier . |
| 11 | Some of the letters were in ballpoint , some in a big fat lazy hand in heavy black ink , only twenty-six words on the page , some typed ( some well-typed , some mis-typed ) ; but despite these differences , each letter began with the same phrase : My Dear Boy . |
| 12 | If you wanted to be happy in life , then you had to find an occupation that began with the same letter as your surname . |
| 13 | This course began with an all day Saturday event looking at learning styles and modes of behaviour using a variety of psychometric tests . |
| 14 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 15 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 16 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 17 | SURVIVOR : Patrese escaped with a few bruises |
| 18 | But amazingly , 17-stone Alan escaped with a few small cuts and bruises — and a little lost dignity . |
| 19 | A 17 and 18 year old escaped with no more than bloody noses . |
| 20 | ‘ Wrote to each other for a while , ’ he echoed with the same derisive twist to his mouth . |
| 21 | Some competitions provide a warm-up area matted with the same material as the actual competition area . |
| 22 | Open-palmed they waved with no more sense of the use of hands to touch grasp or hold than a water plant ; infinitely gentle trailing things , the blind tendrils of a sea-anemone . |
| 23 | Fortunately Ruby worked with no more sound than the occasional deep breath expelled in a sigh . |
| 24 | The children persisted with the same piece of writing from week to week , taking up from where they had left off usually without a murmur . |
| 25 | The previous day members of Raughley SAC ( Sligo ) led by Ian Parke fished with the same skipper and recorded large numbers of coalfish to 8lbs , pollack to 10lbs and ling to 12lbs . |
| 26 | She moved nearer , her silks and veils rustling about her , and we all watched with the same affection that she invoked from family and friends alike . |
| 27 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 28 | She started with a few pounds , about four thousand pounds which she managed to wangle from the local bank manager , a great vision , an enthusiasm but very little experience . |
| 29 | Peter Conrad , writing in the Observer , started with the same query as Mr Burgess about the subtitle , but took a very different view : ‘ Andrew Motion 's superb biography of Philip Larkin has a quietly provocative subtitle — ‘ A Writer 's Life ’ . |
| 30 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |