Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 2 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 3 | I stand up with a sigh , like any husband coming home from the boozer , and I head back to Rachel with whisky on my breath . |
| 4 | I kick off with an idea for a shady border under a deciduous tree . |
| 5 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 6 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 7 | I tackle up with a through-action carbon rod , 11ft long , a fixed-spool reel carrying 5lb b.s. line to which a size 2 hook is tied direct . |
| 8 | I decide to play it safe , so I tackle up with a ¼oz bullet stopped only 1½ inches from the number 4 hook . |
| 9 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 10 | I am pleased to have ladies since they are more comfortable to be with and understand better the difficulties I labour under with a young baby and poor help and no husband constantly at my elbow . |
| 11 | When I go to bed I go up with a cig . |
| 12 | I end up with a flat battery about once a week even though the dynamo , heavy duty battery and voltage regulator have been replaced . |
| 13 | no I do n't think we 'll have a pussy cat for the foreseeable future , not shut up , I say it 's different if they can go out , sharpen their claws on a bit of bark or , unless I end up with a goldfish |
| 14 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 15 | I come back with an armful of dead birch to find Tony digging films out of a snowdrift near the tent . |
| 16 | It was the last lesson of the day and I could n't help it , but I come out with a big burp in the middle of the lesson and she goes , ‘ Fay , are you feeling all right ? ’ and I says , ‘ Yes Miss , of course I am ’ , and then she goes to me when I did it again , ‘ FAY ! ’ and I goes , ‘ It 's all right ’ , I goes , ‘ Pardon me , Miss . |
| 17 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 18 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 19 | I fall out with a lot of photographers over this . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ It is a trip of a lifetime and something I want to do before I settle down with a career . |
| 21 | You could tackle the island 's one and only hill south of Es Calo , stop off for a welcome break at El Mirador and as you cool off with an iced drink , take in the panoramic view . |
| 22 | And do you find that if you sit down with a guitar to write , with all the best intentions in the world , you end up … |
| 23 | So that you wind up with a prioritised monthly to do list . |
| 24 | It is not only the victims of mental or physical abuse who grow up with a faulty self-image . |
| 25 | as if you walk round with a shotgun armoured tank . |
| 26 | You start off with the truth , embellish it slightly , then gradually add to it , until you finish up with a fully-fledged whopper . |
| 27 | The , the way the hills get lighter as you go through until we get right to the back and you finish up with a little bit of erm very light cloud beyond the hills in the distance . |
| 28 | you know you finish up with a wrecked |
| 29 | The water-based ones are quite easy to apply and dry quickly but they often look patchy afterwards unless you finish off with a water-based varnish instead of the usual oil-based polyurethane . |
| 30 | And there 's a fascinating article in this , the current edition , the January edition it is now , because they go so far in advance , of She magazine , which says that er , it 's a desperate plight sometimes , when you have people coming for Christmas who fall into several categories like lazy slobs , who do absolutely nothing , and misers , who turn up with a stale box of chocolates , and never take you out for a meal in return for your hospitality , and the amorous couples who er , embarrass you by er , er , noisily retiring to their bedroom , if I may put it that way , and then the guests who turn up in mid-row , and bicker systematically over the whole of the festive period . |