Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside .
2 I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it .
3 I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls .
4 In the opening scenes of The Quatermass Experiment stock film library footage is used of a V2 rocket blasting off , coupled in with sub-orbital shots of the Earth 's surface as seen from the stratosphere .
5 England vice-captain Alec Stewart weighed in with six catches behind the stumps as Glamorgan , with broken thumb victim Matthew Maynard , slumped to 24–5 .
6 Keith Merrell made 65 against his former teammates and Chris Punchard weighed in with four wickets as Maldon won by 86 runs .
7 Fron piled up 232–4 as Gwilym Williams ( 56 ) and Steve Jones ( 37 not out ) weighed in with useful contributions , and then Pwllheli were shot out for total of just 66 as Chris Tilston took 5–13 .
8 Of the all-rounders , wicketkeeper Marsh , who claimed 70 victims , weighed in with 910 runs at 33.7 and Ellison 415 plus 47 wickets , while Fleming averaged 31.62 with the bat and showed a remarkable flair for bagging high-class , if not always low-cost , wickets .
9 With an engineer 's interest in how all these tiny ‘ bones ’ had fitted together , Miller had gone far beyond his contemporaries dealing with less complex fossils , who drew in with dotted lines parts missing in their specimen .
10 The guests moved in with outstretched hands .
11 Bunny and Martin wandered over with more drinks but Dod never made it past the darts game .
12 Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside .
13 The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind .
14 Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later .
15 The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions .
16 The distributaries will build levees of the coarser parts of their load , while the areas between will be occasionally flooded , built up with finer sediments , converted into swamps and so become sites of the formation of peats and organic muds .
17 Each successive echo from a bat 's own cries produces a picture of the world that makes sense in terms of the previous picture of the world built up with earlier echoes .
18 After being cheered over the finishing line they accepted blankets and drinks from their supporters , then wandered about with bemused expressions on their faces .
19 Pale plain loose covers could be dyed a different , darker colour and occasional chairs changed round with old ones relegated to another room in the house .
20 His father wore a cloak of hyrax skins which he received along with other tools of the trade — pebbles , containers and more important , the ability to use numbers to foretell the future .
21 Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis .
22 Within no time at all , the directly elected mayor of some industrial town or city in the north would spot that if he came along with imaginative ideas for raising standards and delivering services , he would get support , he would be the one that would claim the credit and the central government would be proud to let him have it .
23 As the protest grew , the troops came in with automatic weapons , armoured vehicles and teargas .
24 As he was preparing , all the company came in with good wishes and pledges of support .
25 Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola .
26 He pressed a button on his desk , and an exceedingly attractive girl came in with two cups of coffee .
27 She was just trying to think what she could say to bring John back to the subject of the library and its workings when Shirley came in with two cups of tea .
28 The silence held for two or three minutes and disturbed Mrs Robinson , who came in with fresh candles and the welcome offer of port .
29 There was only one toilet and you just had to hope no one came in with any diseases or anything .
30 This Bobby did , and was cautiously treating himself to oysters at the bar when Minton came in with some sailors and bade him join them .
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