Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the use of a new gauge led to a simple practical problem — the break of gauge where the broad met the narrow gauge with the consequent need for transshipment of goods and passengers . |
| 2 | Then Stephen beat off two defenders in a run to the line and Dave Groves met the resulting cross with a diving header which was cleared in the goalmouth . |
| 3 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 4 | His plan was to reorganize the Southern League with other clubs into two divisions of eighteen to twenty clubs each , to be called the Football Alliance , with promotion and relegation between the Second Division of the League and the First of the Alliance as well as within the two organizations . |
| 5 | The government tackles the free-rider problem with respect to the financing of BBC services by legal means . |
| 6 | With respect to the other products covered by the agreement , the Commission considered that no competition issues have arisen and the Commission adopted a decision allowing the proposed concentration with respect to these aspects of the transactions . |
| 7 | Commercial Union is one of several major insurance companies to target the Grey market with specially designed policies in the past year . |
| 8 | In discussion , alternate the logical approach with this one . |
| 9 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 10 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
| 11 | When she was just about within striking distance , she flung the soaking bundle with all her might in his direction , shouted , ‘ Take that ! ’ and then ran , not waiting to see if she had hit the target or not . |
| 12 | We have a quick swim in the dark , cold water , touching the sandy bottom with our toes as we dive off the raft , the evening still bright , still hot . |
| 13 | The dale took on a crystalline magic ; the sun climbed above the skyline of the moors , touching the snow-covered landscape with sparkling highlights . |
| 14 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 15 | Here the Unionists were challenged for the first time in many years but the NILP shared the anti-Unionist vote with Independents , who polled 4.5 per cent in North and 2 per cent in Waterside . |
| 16 | American Danny Sullivan went on to win a race which also saw Emerson Fittipaldi , of Brazil , who shared the front row with Mansell , knocked out in a separate accident . |
| 17 | In many states , the political framework could be described as ‘ constitutional monarchy ’ , but only Spain and Sweden shared the two-party conflict with which Great Britain seemed to make the system work . |
| 18 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 19 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 20 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 21 | Moran , O'Neill and Mick Deegan all attempted to curb the in-form Brolly with no success , and his blistering pace will give Cork manager Billy Morgan something to ponder over in the week ahead . |
| 22 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 23 | What a top bloke — especially in the episode nicked off Star Trek when he plays the evil Brigadier with an eye patch from another dimension . |
| 24 | Wisely , three representative images are chosen for detailed state by state analysis , rather than encumbering the whole catalogue with such voluminous information . |
| 25 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 26 | Repeat the above exercise with a list of what makes you ‘ less than ’ others . |
| 27 | Repeat the same procedure with each gate in turn . |
| 28 | Repeat the whole exercise with the other half of the original length of wire until the entire core is filled . |
| 29 | Relax the leg by bringing the knee in towards the chest , then roll over and repeat the whole exercise with the other leg . |
| 30 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |