Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
| 2 | These steps complied with the requirements of the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules to which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has referred . |
| 3 | One or two anxieties came with the memories . |
| 4 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 5 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 6 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 7 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |
| 8 | The marines chatted with the vigilantees for a time and exchanged cigarettes with them . |
| 9 | We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse . |
| 10 | Mr Goodstadt says : ‘ Until recently , further opportunities for planting were becoming increasingly restricted to the residue of highly sensitive uplands , where contentious applications conflicted with the interests of wildlife , landscape and water resources . ’ |
| 11 | At Van Dongen 's studio negro boxers sparred with the guests on Thursday afternoons , critics came in to drink liqueurs and Nina danced naked under a black veil . |
| 12 | Contracts were agreed today , less than a week after Oxford 's last race this term , which was in sharp contrast to this season when problems arose with the days of the opening of the nineteen ninety season . |
| 13 | Most of her girlfriends lived with the hopes and aims of finding a husband among a crowd of men whose principal interests lay in rugby , racing and beer , and , of course , in getting a girl into bed if possible . |
| 14 | His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics . |
| 15 | Moreover , Don Juan 's sympathies lay with the Allies , which contributed to making his followers in Spain believe that they could look to the Western democracies in general , and to Great Britain in particular , for support . |
| 16 | All these thoughts and observations co-existed with the words she was hurling across at her husband |
| 17 | More than 50 Department of Social Security officers went with the police to minicab headquarters across north and east London and several people were questioned about benefit fraud . |
| 18 | Beneath the great silver-encrusted salt bowl were long rows of tables crowded with the retainers , clerks and officials of the great lords . |
| 19 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |
| 20 | The men rose with the ladies . |
| 21 | The rest of his men fled with the servants and the local gentry . |
| 22 | As one of the four original components of the US-administered UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , Belau had negotiated a Compact of Free Association with the USA , but this compact had never become operative , as the rights which it granted to the USA to determine defence and foreign policy issues conflicted with the clauses of Belau 's Constitution which forbade the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons . |
| 23 | Their hunger was hers , their battle-scarred pelts ached with the gashes on her heart . |
| 24 | Some of his remarks chimed with the ideas of the Adam Smith Institute ; others ( querying whether Auntie should be involved with pop music and popular television ) smacked of Carlton Club élitism . |
| 25 | The craft of caring for clothes vanished with the ladies ' maid and the most common modern method of storage — hanging them , shrouded in plastic , on a wire coathanger — is less than ideal . |
| 26 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 27 | In the Middle Ages , he wrote , the glass in the cathedral walls glowed with the fires of judgement and damnation . |
| 28 | Cells preincubated with the peptides cp26 , cp27 and cp28 were lysed . |
| 29 | At the outset these honours were merely purchased , but in later creations the augmentations came with the grants . |
| 30 | The raiders escaped with the takings from two tills . |