Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , chop through them with a small cold chisel . |
| 2 | Spatz looked up at Ellis and took the files from him , sorting through them with a great show of self-importance , before finally setting them aside and looking across at Kim . |
| 3 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , what if I purchased two lots which added up to less than fifty pounds , could I pay for them with a personal cheque , assuming , of course , that I had a valid cheque card ? ’ |
| 5 | Duncan trotted back with him and , sure enough , Mother dinosaur was waiting for them with a big smile on her face . |
| 6 | Yesterday it all came good for them with a thrilling five shot ( 78-73 ) victory over Old Bleach in the final at Jordanstown , a result that finally takes away the sour taste following their defeat by Bangor in last year 's final . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 8 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 9 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 10 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 11 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd be scared of them coming after me with a big shotgun . |
| 13 | Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze . |
| 14 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 15 | Imprinted against the sculpted white drifts of the opposite shore he sprang from the ice in a swift , frisky curvet , landed with perfect balance , and sped towards them with a lithe , energetic swing from foot to foot , faultlessly timed . |
| 16 | Sensing their presence on the threshold of the door , it twisted its head up towards them with a atrocious snarl . |
| 17 | People drifted in and out , not acknowledging one 's presence , and my only meeting with Joan 's mother was when she rushed past me with a vague smile and a tennis racquet . |
| 18 | It is hoped that they do , because it can be shown that theories that include gravity are either finite or nonrenormalizable ; that is , if one has to make any infinite subtractions , then one will have to make an infinite number of them with a corresponding infinite number of undetermined remainders . |
| 19 | Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof . |
| 20 | ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden . |
| 21 | Keith Ramsey supplied three of them with a long-range shot 15 seconds from time , but Gerald Lee marshalled his team through . |
| 22 | The Wapping area involved four or five local authorities and the plan was to leave each of them with a high degree of autonomy but with some rather unconsidered federal situation over the whole area . |
| 23 | Nathan nodded his thanks as the waiter presented each of them with a leather-bound menu . |
| 24 | Evelyn watched the two of them with a little smile on her face . |
| 25 | The actual question appeared each time on the screen in front of them with a seven point scale with labels at the end points — 7=VERY WELL and 1=NOT VERY WELL . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've ended up most of them with a full confession , once we 'd worked it out . |
| 27 | In that aim it is abetted both by nature conservation bodies — duped by the MoD 's tendentious Defence and the Environment prospectus of three years ago , into believing that the area 's interests are best served by the public being kept out — and by factions within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , most of them with a military background , who also tug their forelocks to that aim . |
| 28 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 29 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 30 | The men laughed as she manoeuvred past them with a fixed smile . |