Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 2 | Kerensky left the capital and tried with little success to raise loyal troops . |
| 3 | These depict foppish dwellings , tastefully furnished in plain wood and provisioned with all kinds of ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ gadgets . |
| 4 | And then you went and danced with that Lout — and with Herman . |
| 5 | There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition . |
| 6 | I jumped the iron spikes and landed with both feet on the concrete , then ran over the narrow top of the pipe and jumped down on to the island . |
| 7 | But the hints and intimations which it conveyed to her stretched far , far away , into the past and the future , and she had a sudden , piercing , painfully beautiful vision of a life where men with book shops called upon friends for the pleasure of society , and quarrelled with those friends upon topics as elevated , as unworldly and as magnificent as the Labour Party . |
| 8 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 9 | She inhaled the aroma of his thick black coffee and looked with some doubt at her murky cup of tea . |
| 10 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 11 | The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar and lay with some stranger … after sexual union has made the woman holy in the goddess ' sight , she returns home … |
| 12 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 13 | Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom . |
| 14 | They had one son and two daughters , one of whom , Geraldine , trained as an actress and singer and appeared with some success before her death in 1984 . |
| 15 | En route he raced and collided with another car . |
| 16 | He and his party were admitted by leave of the Lord Chamberlain and waited with many noblemen , councillors , and gentlemen for the Queen 's appearance . |
| 17 | Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans . |
| 18 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 19 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 20 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 21 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 22 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 23 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 25 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 26 | King Philip travelled south in an attempt to make peace but faced with such stubbornness on both sides he was forced to return with nothing accomplished . |
| 27 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |