Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker . |
| 3 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 4 | That is why they attacked me with a bomb . |
| 5 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 6 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 7 | In the old days manufacturers produced the goods and salesmen sold them with the help of advertising . |
| 8 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 9 | Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb . |
| 10 | In a sense then , the fate of Simmel 's work is at present parallel to that of Hegel 's , in as much as later authorities have appropriated his ideas and aligned them with a theory of rupture seen as specific to capitalism . |
| 11 | He glanced across at the waiting technicians and dismissed them with a gesture . |
| 12 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 13 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 14 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 15 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 16 | Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence . |
| 17 | We caught them with a net and we used to sell them as cage-birds . ’ |
| 18 | She fixed me with a look of vengeance and demanded the home phone number of the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures . |
| 19 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 20 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 21 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 22 | When the children clattered , yelling , down the bus steps , their mothers regarded them with a mixture of disgust and pride , as if amazed anew each afternoon that they had managed to produce children of such spectacular offensiveness . |
| 23 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 24 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
| 25 | Taff prodded me with the butt of the Bren gun . |
| 26 | ‘ Beuno helped me with the washing-up after you went to bed . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My niece , Gina , helped me with the washing-up . |
| 28 | Comments included ‘ Scott helped me with the photocopying ’ , ‘ Can we stay in the groups because I really like working with Bobby ? ’ and ‘ Why could n't we stay all day ? ’ |
| 29 | But she stopped me with a look . |
| 30 | Two nights ago — a small girl approached me with a bottle of mercurochrome and , with a small brush , began to spread it over my lips . |