Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 2 | The talk was general , candlelit faces leaned across the table and the hands which peeled the fruit or fidgeted with the glasses were as individual as the faces . |
| 3 | The dogs that came with the Romans probably mated with the indigenous population , helping to form many of the breeds we know today . |
| 4 | But in the long term he opened the way to the great revolution in industry that came with the advances on his original idea , made by such as James Watt and Richard Trevithick ( qq.v . ) . |
| 5 | There was a bell here , too , that communicated with the Misses Cardings ' rooms above . |
| 6 | He made converts , and prepared the way for the real planning that began with the bombs of 1940–41 ’ ( Wright , 1982 , p. 9 ) . |
| 7 | The third and best of the Rabbitte family trilogy that began with The Commitments is an essential read for anyone with fond memories of Italia ‘ 90 . |
| 8 | After a few days of being talked to , and stroked with the clippers running , he became confident enough to let me do a full clip ( including his ears ! ) — which just goes to show that patience , firmness and plenty of encouragement are essential when producing a young horse . |
| 9 | The UK has flouted the EC 's Directive and disagreed with the standards it originally agreed to . |
| 10 | The same Northern blot was hybridized and then stripped and rehybridized with the probes indicated ( a ) Oct-11 , ( b ) Oct-2 and ( c ) actin . |
| 11 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 12 | I sat on the floor and played with the children . |
| 13 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 14 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 15 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 16 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 17 | ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’ |
| 18 | As the FMLN opened up war fronts and established itself in several areas of the country , many medical students and health workers joined the liberation army and worked with the communities to set up their own alternative health system . |
| 19 | and I went there and worked with the toddlers and er and then I worked in the maternity side of it |
| 20 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 21 | And worked with the tenants association too . |
| 22 | Out oil the compound , away from the news bulletins , those who lived and worked with the Africans often forgot that some were black and others white . |
| 23 | Joanie stood by her side as she laughed and chatted with the guys . |
| 24 | The court heard evidence from David Moss who 'd walked passed and chatted with the victims sitting on the roadside bench . |
| 25 | After his consecration as bishop of Argyll and the Isles in 1847 he lived in Lochgilphead and struggled with the problems of his diocese , Italy , Calvinism in Scotland , and factional struggles in the Episcopal Church . |
| 26 | She took a breath and struggled with the tears . |
| 27 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 28 | The march was attended by 3,500 ( as compared with 100,000 at a similar march in January — see p. 38736 ) and passed peacefully except that afterwards members of a Trotskyist group , the Revolutionary Communist Youth , broke away and battled with the police preventing them from reaching a hall where Le Pen was speaking . |
| 29 | AMPES initially concentrated its attention on women workers and collaborated with the PCS trade unions ; |
| 30 | A third group were idealists and enlisted with the Artists ' Rifles and other forces , whether or not they were physically suited for fighting . |