Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] with [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Good tactics , whether planned or not — the more gentry were pinned down here , the fewer were left to muster the Volunteers or ride off with news to the Deputies at Blairgowrie .
2 Choose a waterproof adhesive and finish off with grout in a contrasting colour .
3 If we consider Out with respect to the conception of metaphor examined above , the desperate sputterings of the main character can be seen as active or ‘ verbal ’ in their metaphoric function : his discourse mobilizes and metaphorizes all others and has only tenuous links with any reality outside its field of operation .
4 You are also responsible for the formation of future adults and , although children may not seem terribly appreciative at the time , most of them , when grown up , look back with delight on simple childhood memories .
5 I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College .
6 Haunch up with mortar behind the outer edge of the block to within about 3/4in(5cm) of the top .
7 They get on with it and they get on with life in the colleges and life may not be wonderful but they deal with it , and in some senses they are exercising what power they have , but what they get fed up with is constantly having to exercise it .
8 Then put the whole root-ball into a container which will take it without cramping , and which already has compost in the base , then fill in with compost at the sides .
9 Set up with help from a government subsidy aimed at encouraging renewable energy projects , the plant burns poultry litter from surrounding farms .
10 Aidan Canavan , chairman of the Dairy Farm Project — set up with aid from the International Fund for Ireland — said : ‘ The centre is one of the examples where success can be achieved by people getting together to work for their community in a non-sectarian way .
11 And I still fill up with petrol by the gallons .
12 To be serious , there will inevitably be those who go down with flu in the last week before the race , and those with lower leg pain which is genuinely becoming worse day by day , rather than better .
13 But the way they are sold means many savers end up with egg on their faces if they are forced to cash in policies before these fall due .
14 As it happens , the Brits end up with egg on the face , while the native Indians come up trumps .
15 Start off with time in hand so that you can read notices and indicators in a calm state of mind ; buy your ticket in advance ; know exactly when you have to change and the time of the connections .
16 For the remaining 20% of patients in whom no cause for the anaemia has been found , careful follow up with monitoring of haemoglobin and red cell indices is required .
17 We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel .
18 Have I ever come back with blood on me ? ’
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