Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
| 2 | Essex Rendering Ltd. in the above case complied with the Justices direction to apply to the local authority for consent in writing but such consent was refused , and their appeal dismissed . |
| 3 | On its own , this could prove a nice little facility for corporates to share their thoughts and ideas , but if Microsoft continues seriously to pursue the bottom-up , template approach , we can expect to see the bulletin board melded with the capabilities of electronic mail , Visual Basic and the company 's various database access tools . |
| 4 | Chico made with the nods . |
| 5 | While waiting to move into a new apartment in the Boulevard Saint Germain , Apollinaire lived with the Delaunays for almost two months during the autumn of 1912 , and at this time the Delaunays ' studio became the meeting-place of a new group . |
| 6 | These steps complied with the requirements of the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules to which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has referred . |
| 7 | First she lifted the lid of a trunk plastered with the labels of railway companies . |
| 8 | The opposition members of the commission investigating the June 1990 violence in Bucharest disagreed with the conclusions of the inquiry . |
| 9 | Evidently no generalization decrement occurred with the stimuli and procedures used here because there was no loss of conditioned responding in group D. But the stimuli and procedures used in the aversive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(b) were just the same as those used in the appetitive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(a) . |
| 10 | One or two anxieties came with the memories . |
| 11 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 12 | The chilliness in Blanche 's feet and hands was replaced by a pulsating warmth as her mind raced with the implications of what Urquhart had told her . |
| 13 | She and Mrs Beeley walked with the guns . |
| 14 | Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’ |
| 15 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 16 | After the register , the evening prayer , the curtsies and bows to teachers , and the let-out bell , Dot ran with the others across the playground , through the iron gate , towards the jangling sounds . |
| 17 | The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war . |
| 18 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 19 | Violence continued with the deaths of at least 50 people as the security forces stepped up their operations . |
| 20 | Melanie played with the taps in the sink to hide her embarrassed pleasure . |
| 21 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 22 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |
| 23 | The wind had risen , blowing the boat ever faster shorewards , and , as Alan wrestled with the oars , I tried to unfankle the heap of floss and flies , catching my tail fly on the bottom of the boat in the process . |
| 24 | Wordsworth sided with the Girondins , who were still in control of the Assembly , and had declared war on Austria and Prussia in April 1792 to spread the Revolution abroad . |
| 25 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 26 | The marines chatted with the vigilantees for a time and exchanged cigarettes with them . |
| 27 | Insurance compensation started with the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1897 . |
| 28 | We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse . |
| 29 | High on its waterless ridge , Battle grew with the fortunes of its abbey , but never achieved the sort of wealth that allowed Chichester to assert its independence . |
| 30 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |