Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laid down the phone with a small sigh of relief . |
| 2 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 3 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 4 | She drew back the curtain with her hand and looked both ways along the deserted street . |
| 5 | " Oh , Sir Dermot , you know I 'm Lally , " she laughed and helped out the moment with sly ease , loosening the way through Nicandra 's formal how-do-you-do 's . |
| 6 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 7 | I filled in the form with this request instead of a claim for money , although I did n't have much hope that anything would happen . |
| 8 | Tamar had just gone upstairs for her needlework when Jim Fairly , the tenant of Paradise Farm , drove down the village with the body under a blanket on a flat cart . |
| 9 | He gestured down the table with his knife and Jo , smiling broadly , passed the relish . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Ernest Protheroe noted approvingly the speed with which the Japanese had taken over their railways : |
| 11 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 12 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 13 | He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes . |
| 14 | He had hardly passed through the swing doors when Massingham drove up the ramp with the Rover . |
| 15 | P C and myself went round to the side of the bed and P C lifted up the bed with one hand carrying the gun in his other hand . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no eventually about it , ’ came back the answer with the speed of a striking snake . |
| 17 | Franca , who had been leaning against the big warm cast-iron stove with a spoon in her hand , threw down the spoon with a clang and marched through the door into her sitting room . |
| 18 | Endill threw down the rope with the chair attached to it . |
| 19 | The door at the end of the hallway was wrenched open with a ‘ crash ’ and Delphinia MacKenzie , her hands white with flour , pounded down the carpet with as much grace and haste as her station in life and her stays would allow . |
| 20 | then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my |
| 21 | He shook off the mood with a shrug and grinned back at them . |
| 22 | She shook off the feeling with determined resolution . |
| 23 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 24 | Liverpool turned up the heat with their crisp , passing game ; Sunderland 's hope melted , and their players froze . |
| 25 | Most of the work was done by gangs of miners , many of them ‘ claykickers ’ who sat in the tunnel , leaning against a wooden backrest with their feet at the face , and dug out the clay with a light spade . |
| 26 | He scrubbed out the map with his boot before remounting the motor cycle . |
| 27 | The dominant sectors of society found no difficulty in tolerating or even nodding approval of its message , a development which reached its apogee when the 1988 Conference of the British Conservative Party bellowed out the song with no hint of embarrassment . |
| 28 | ‘ In the days before there was much legislation on public health matters , public nuisance was the only offence for which it was possible to prosecute those who stank out the neighbourhood with fumes from glassworks , tanneries and smelters , or who kept pigs in the streets , or kept explosives in dangerous places … |
| 29 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 30 | Thanks to these discoveries ( for which Sir John was generously given all the credit ) the Sun became temporarily the newspaper with the highest circulation in the world . |