Example sentences of "[adv] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 'll sit down with perhaps a pen in her hand and then go up and |
| 2 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 3 | When , in 1989 , Princess Anne and her husband , Mark Phillips , separated , they did so with scarcely a murmur , two people whose marital problems were half understood by millions . |
| 4 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 5 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 6 | As a result , farmers and foresters , custodians of the countryside , have got away with rather a lot . |
| 7 | ENGINEER Windsor Rees plunged half a mile down a mountainside in his Land-Rover and walked away with just a graze . |
| 8 | He turned away with just a touch of impatience . |
| 9 | And we get away with twice a week . |
| 10 | ‘ The rules are loose , ’ a WWF spokeman said , ‘ you can get away with quite a lot . |
| 11 | I think I got away with quite a lot , considering . |
| 12 | I walked away with hardly a glimpse back . ’ |
| 13 | Cut all the vegetables finely so that the dish can be eaten easily with just a fork . |
| 14 | She wore a smart Gor-Ray skirt , always with either a twinset or a wool blouse . |
| 15 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 16 | I let her off with just a sound punch to the rib region : - ) |
| 17 | But it was suddenly called off with just a week to go . |
| 18 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 19 | But she knew at once why I had asked and went on with hardly a break for punctuation , ‘ Well , love , what 's with you ? |
| 20 | Crosby , battling on with only a one-year-contract and persistent speculation about his future , reckons the only way to silence the gossips is by climbing into the promotion frame . |
| 21 | Numbly , she followed him to the ladder at the back of the yacht , then watched as he ignored it and dived powerfully into the indigo water , his body slicing cleanly with hardly a splash before he struck out with a strong , fast crawl towards the far distant shore . |
| 22 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 23 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 24 | She only did , them drama people came up with quite a lot ideas |
| 25 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 26 | The next day , the villagers found Babushka dead in the straw , curled up with only an ox and an ass to watch over her . |
| 27 | But 39-year-old Patrese clambered out with just a pair of bruised knees and trembling hands . |
| 28 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 29 | I went out with quite a lot of men before I met Stuart . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |