Example sentences of "[adv] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1989 , Princess Anne and her husband , Mark Phillips , separated , they did so with scarcely a murmur , two people whose marital problems were half understood by millions . |
| 2 | As a result , farmers and foresters , custodians of the countryside , have got away with rather a lot . |
| 3 | ENGINEER Windsor Rees plunged half a mile down a mountainside in his Land-Rover and walked away with just a graze . |
| 4 | He turned away with just a touch of impatience . |
| 5 | And we get away with twice a week . |
| 6 | ‘ The rules are loose , ’ a WWF spokeman said , ‘ you can get away with quite a lot . |
| 7 | I think I got away with quite a lot , considering . |
| 8 | I walked away with hardly a glimpse back . ’ |
| 9 | Cut all the vegetables finely so that the dish can be eaten easily with just a fork . |
| 10 | She wore a smart Gor-Ray skirt , always with either a twinset or a wool blouse . |
| 11 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 12 | Numbly , she followed him to the ladder at the back of the yacht , then watched as he ignored it and dived powerfully into the indigo water , his body slicing cleanly with hardly a splash before he struck out with a strong , fast crawl towards the far distant shore . |
| 13 | We can bend over now with scarcely a groan , scarcely a knee-crackle . |
| 14 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 15 | Another major player , Microsoft Corp , so far with only a tippy-toe in the open systems waters , needs to control the definition and evolution of computing to maintain its momentum , Wendler says . |
| 16 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 17 | ‘ Even while then it still had n't clicked in my brilliant brain why I was acting so , I put my foot down , and kept it there , and arrived here with about an hour to spare before your train was due in . |
| 18 | And studies have shown that if people are injected , even with not a drug that sort of , satisfies their need for a while , and what does work is a change of environment for people and that does come down to people not , you know , being able to work , people being unemployed , and also peer group pressure like th , the woman said over there . |
| 19 | The patient may have enjoyed gardening before his stroke or head injury , and it is an activity he can return to even with quite a degree of disability . |
| 20 | They had this little room , half the size of a prison cell , and if you did anything wrong you were put in there with just a mattress , and you was left there locked in , to stew really . |
| 21 | And she 's sitting there with just a swimming costume on and they think |
| 22 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
| 23 | He bowed to her a little formally and then with only a hint of self-mockery kissed her hand . |
| 24 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
| 25 | Its two pink legs ended in four toes , all pointing forward with only a suggestion of balancing heel . |
| 26 | A pane of glass in one of the ground floor flats had been broken , replaced hastily with just a sheet of newspaper held in place by masking tape . |