Example sentences of "[verb] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 2 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 3 | Onto one line I tie a size 2 , straight-eyed , forged hook , which has been carefully honed with a fine carborundum stone to razor sharpness , and the barb reduced to a bare minimum so as not to impeded penetration but still retain a degree of holding power . |
| 4 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 5 | This may be the case literally when a French speaker has to communicate with a non-French speaker but , even within a common language , usage varies enormously . |
| 6 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 7 | The overall atmosphere is one of unrelenting power , mixed with a critical commentary . |
| 8 | While both painters , and Picasso in particular , led active social lives and mixed with a wide circle of literary and artistic figures , their friendship seems to have rendered them self-sufficient . |
| 9 | 15 g ( ½ oz ) cornflour , mixed with a little water |
| 10 | Thicken towards the end of cooking if necessary with plain flour mixed with a little water and a few drops of bottled gravy browning . |
| 11 | Using a brush dipped lightly in purple food colouring ( mixed with a little water for lighter shades ) , colour the windows dark purple and tint the bricks all over the towers different shades of lavender . |
| 12 | This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity . |
| 13 | When an amorphous polymer is mixed with a suitable solvent , it disperses in the solvent and behaves as though it too is a liquid . |
| 14 | All of these had to be mixed with a suitable quota of pretty and elegant women to form some sort of homogeneous gathering , so that the guests would , after a fashion , entertain themselves as well as be entertained . |
| 15 | In order to measure the effects of water transport more precisely , Korth ( 1979 ) simulated stream action by artificial attrition in a rotary tumbler , mixed with a fine quartz matrix ( grain size 2–4 mm in diameter ) and water , for a total of 80 hours . |
| 16 | The most noticeable aspect of Therapy ? now — as opposed to a year ago — is that the anger and tension of their sound is mixed with a fresh waft of cool and poise onstage . |
| 17 | A plate of spaghetti mixed with a fried courgette and some fried mushrooms , covered with a packet cheese sauce takes only fifteen minutes to prepare . |
| 18 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 19 | which is scraped off and used as so called paint for the pottery , mixed with a little light |
| 20 | A one-handed clock moves backwards , an hourglass contains white sand ( mixed with a little Warpstone ) which flows upwards , a pipe-rack made of fused vertebrae holds meerschaums with bowls crafted in the forms of Daemon heads . |
| 21 | Best bought in by the load , it becomes expensive when stacked , composted , mixed with a little poultry , bagged up and given a fancy proprietary name . |
| 22 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 23 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |
| 24 | She felt a powerful urge to murder , mixed with a delicious glow . |
| 25 | The paste contains collagen suspended in a salt solution mixed with a local anaesthetic , lignocaine . |
| 26 | Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate liqueur in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or with a food mixer until light and fluffy . |
| 27 | The Fire Ghost simply bursts into flames , its spectral body surrounded with a huge halo of dancing fire . |
| 28 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 29 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 30 | State agencies do act with a considerable degree of autonomy , and take limited account of their interaction with other branches of the government . |