Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | Those new-age prats think they can flush me out with a bit of colonic irrigation . |
| 3 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 4 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 6 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 7 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 8 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 9 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 10 | Well it says in the book , push them back with a stick . |
| 11 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 13 | Why not just send them out with a n y'know a nice letter and the voucher . |
| 14 | ‘ I see you still do n't trust me alone with the Knudsen , ’ she commented acidly , as she complied with his instructions . |
| 15 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 16 | ‘ Then he can tie them up with the firm . |
| 17 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 18 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 19 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 20 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 21 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 22 | ‘ Knock me down with a feather , to coin a phrase , ’ said Andrée , ‘ it 's his , it 's saintly Michel 's retreat . |
| 23 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 24 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 25 | I I do n't know dust them up with a a cloth and a bit of Pledge I expect . |
| 26 | To start with I used them straight with no water and sharpened the leads to a fine point to draw the outline . |
| 27 | Poulenc rarely achieves or even tries to emulate his fellow countryman 's emotional intensity , although the more overtly entertaining and witty numbers can suddenly catch you out with a characteristically bitter-sweet volte-face . |
| 28 | ‘ Send him away with a flea in his ear . |
| 29 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 30 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |