Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 2 | Arthur Sando from Swindon lent a hand with the rescue , then helped to flag down traffic to prevent it making it worse . |
| 3 | And so he climbed to the mountains and there , high in the mountains , in an old stone building lived a man with hair down below his waist . |
| 4 | The driver made a gesture with his bandaged fingers . |
| 5 | Instantly y'Pripio produced a document with those assurances already signed and sealed . |
| 6 | The precise stage reached by the Yakuts remains more controversial , but Soviet historians generally agree that their tribal society was already decaying , so that the Russians found a community with marked class differences . |
| 7 | Mr Baker proposed a meeting with Israel 's Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , and his Egyptian counterpart , Esmat Abdel-Maguid , after Israeli leaders last Friday rejected Egypt 's invitation to meet a Palestinian delegation in Cairo . |
| 8 | When Harold Wilson came to office , one Polaris submarine was cancelled , but the programme continued and Labour sought a consensus with other political parties and played an enormous role in NATO . |
| 9 | Maitland became a Christian with a gift for utterance . |
| 10 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 11 | Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section . |
| 12 | A LOVESICK Frenchwoman plastered a town with pictures of her English sweetheart only to discover he was married . |
| 13 | In 1985 Rosenberg entered a partnership with Sydney Pollack and their productions included Presumed Innocent , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Bright Lights , Big City . |
| 14 | Ironically , it followed the one spell in which either side promised a goal with Notts County 's Cherry making the only serious saves from Furlong and Flynn . |
| 15 | Angry Cruyff FOOTBALL : Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff yesterday accused his players of throwing in the towel and lacking the heart to defend their Spanish League title after his side dropped a point with a poor performance in a 1–1 draw at home to Real Burgos yesterday . |
| 16 | Then , in a twist of genius , Murdoch welded a merger with its arch-rival BSB and , suddenly , where there were two at each other 's throats , there was now only one . |
| 17 | In December last year Hungary signed a contract with US West , one of America 's seven local-telephone companies , and Ericsson , a Swedish manufacturer , for a cellular telephone system . |
| 18 | Toby stifled a yawn with long , elegant fingers . |
| 19 | Madrid-based Alcatel Standard Electrica SA formed a consortium with the Spanish National Institute for Industry to win one of Spain 's most important business coups in China since the latter embarked on its programme of economic reforms in 1978 . |
| 20 | The associated grave goods included everyday items like boots , knives and bracelets , though at least one burial contained a pot with chicken bones , and another a dog . |
| 21 | Chris Novoselic rolled a cigarette with the deliberate , weary motions of a man three times his age , while Dave Grohl sat motionless for ten minutes with a towel over his head , every now and again moaning , ‘ I think I 'm about to die ’ . |
| 22 | In Paris , Vienna and Berlin , modernism meant a break with a preceding historical or historicist style that predominated especially in painting and architecture . |
| 23 | The revised budget entailed a cut of some $1,100 million from the administration 's original $4,900 million request for the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI or " Star Wars " project , involving the use of space-based defences against ballistic missiles ) ; this cut represented a compromise with the Senate , which had acknowledged the need for reductions , but which had called instead on Sept. 27 for a cut of only $800,000,000 . |
| 24 | AFTER THE FIVE months on gruelling location and the inconveniences of the long make-up sessions , Dustin took a rest with his family in New York . |
| 25 | Portugal lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice on Feb. 22 , 1991 , against Australia with regard to a treaty between Australia and Indonesia covering the division of oil resources in the Timor Gap ( near the former Portuguese colony of East Timor ) [ see also p. 37578 ] . |
| 26 | In the morning Creed had a meeting with a city bank . |
| 27 | He also saw that by inviting Nixon when he was out of office with few prospects of getting back into it , Ceauşescu struck a chord with the future US President , who would remain loyal to his friend in need . |
| 28 | ‘ The average tramp 's cell had a bed with a mattress , a straw pillow , and three blankets . |
| 29 | Polythene tubes ( Sterilin ; internal diameter 0.75 mm ( input ) and 2 mm ( output ) ) were inserted ; the output catheter had a tip with multiple perforations to allow sump collection of fluid . |
| 30 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |