Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] with [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible . |
| 2 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 3 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 4 | When it had grown older it did show a little interest in females and even deigned to mate with a few , though never with much enthusiasm . |
| 5 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 6 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 7 | During that period the great schism within Islam between sunni and shi'ite occurred , in which Egypt became associated with the former , as it has remained ever since . |
| 8 | As I say , W. wished to continue with the same régime . |
| 9 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 10 | The new agency would be directed by Yuri Koptev , who had worked with the former Soviet military complex VPK , and would had a staff of 150 people . |
| 11 | A " The settlement at Munich was a triumph for British policy , which had worked precisely to this end ; not a triumph for Hitler , who had started with no such clear intention . |
| 12 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 13 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 14 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 15 | ‘ People got married with the same sense of cultural duty that people today ( often the same people ) get divorced , ’ according to the novelist Malcolm Bradbury , ‘ You owed it to yourself and to the times … |