Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 2 | However , not all females show equally strong preferences , and they decided to breed from the females that did mate with a quadrimaculata male , to see whether their offspring would also show the preference . |
| 3 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the trouble with Nicky , ’ Constance told Louise after she had returned from yet another evening that had ended with a quarrel . |
| 5 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
| 6 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 7 | This idea developed in the Church and became linked with a theology which is known as ‘ penal substitution ’ , the idea that Christ paid the penalty for you and me . |
| 8 | The method was ethnographic and participatory and involved working with a software development team , and research programmers . |
| 9 | The whore sniffed and tried to walk with a ladylike gait ; she seemed a little drunk and occasionally stopped to pause for breath . |
| 10 | He had his father 's black hair , a strong sun-tan , and seemed filled with a manic energy ; ready and eager to enjoy both Wavebreaker and our company . |
| 11 | Sillars Stalker was a much improved hurdler over the winter , and returned to form with a blinding effort to chase home Olympian in the Coral Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last week . |
| 12 | In 1866 he launched an ambitious plan to rebuild the college chapel and began fund-raising with a donation of £100 from the pope himself . |
| 13 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |
| 14 | She had been well taught , and after making the odd minor mistake during the opening moves she soon recovered herself , and began to play with a concentration and a ferocity which was also a surprise . |
| 15 | Followed by one fresh orange , peeled , sliced and served topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla custard ( left over from Thursday ) . |
| 16 | Some examples of likely emergencies were used in the questioning and included dealing with a sick animal , returning stray stock , lambing a ewe , and administering first aid . |
| 17 | Jean left home at 16 and went to live with a friend . |
| 18 | In Margaret 's opinion the marriage had been moderately happy until 3 weeks before the overdose when her husband suddenly left home and went to live with a close friend of hers . |
| 19 | Panna 's mother , fearing the consequences , left the village with the baby and went to stay with a cousin fifty kilometres away . |
| 20 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 21 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 22 | The curd was then put into a straining cloth and left to drip with a blanket wrapped round it to keep it warm . |
| 23 | Some fleeting affairs , but things without heat ; all the passion of her being , head and heart , which she sought and longed to give with a fierceness that no one knew , that belied her cool exterior , varnished nails and ( she hoped ) elegant way . |
| 24 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 25 | At Bicester it hit a roundabout but kept going with a flat tyre heading for Milton Keynes . |