Example sentences of "[vb pp] with a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we had cossetted one floor Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke 's legs were criss-crossed by lines resembling a noughts and crosses grid , and my jeans , saturated with a witch 's brew of chemicals , were gathering dust and fluff like a thieving magpie . |
| 2 | At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box . |
| 3 | In art , she is often depicted with a cat 's head while carrying a shield and rattle , to frighten away thunder-storms , and a basket to carry grain . |
| 4 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 5 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 6 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 7 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 8 | No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) . |
| 9 | The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age . |
| 10 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 11 | All NF-L plasmids were cotransfected with a human β-globin gene ( 9 ) to control for transfection effeciency . |
| 12 | The change in absorbance at 460 nm was measured with a Beckman DU 7 spectrophotometer ( Beckman Instruments , Fullerton , CA ) . |
| 13 | No less is to be expected of a vehicle sold with a manufacturer 's warranty . |
| 14 | The fact that the car had been sold with a manufacturer 's warranty was irrelevant . |
| 15 | A tank cutter has an adjustable arm which scribes the hole and is best used with a carpenter 's brace . |
| 16 | Two men armed with a butcher 's knife and wearing balaclavas , forced their way behind the bar of the Vauxhill Arms pub in Gloucester after closing time and forced the landlord to open two tills . |
| 17 | Thin sections were cut parallel to the substratum , stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate , and examined with a Jeol 100CXII electron microscope at 80kV . |
| 18 | Filled with a cream 's ‘ key ’ ingredients , they carry then into the top layers . |
| 19 | An armoured glove filled with a sadist 's hand had reached into his heart and torn out his joy in life and put in its place a seemingly permanent sense of loss and despair . |
| 20 | Every leg of every bed stood in a jar of water to frustrate the ruthless ants , while the ‘ hospital corners ’ of the bedding were aligned with a draughtsman 's precision — even though the linen , I noticed , was yellowish and patched . |
| 21 | Scores on these tests were compared with a mother 's record of when her baby first walked and talked . |
| 22 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 23 | Lipid was extracted with a one-phase chloroform:methanol extractant , and fractionated into neutral lipid , glycolipid and polar lipid fractions with silicic acid . |
| 24 | Before he cracked , Mr Rushdie had stumbled on a truth : that if free speech and free writing are to be defended in an age of increasing religious fervour , they must be defended with a zealot 's passion . |
| 25 | If a union complains to an industrial tribunal of failure by the employer to consult , the employer may be liable for a compensation award of up to two weeks ' pay per employee affected with a week 's salary being limited to £184 . |
| 26 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 27 | Holding infested fish in a damp cloth and dabbing the parasites with paraffin administered with a child 's paint brush dislodge the pests . |
| 28 | Just over half the profits came from the US , where Carlton 's North Hollywood processing lab dealt with a record 1.2bn feet of film , including Warner 's blockbuster , Batman Returns . |
| 29 | Upper panel : The various human NF-L promoter deletions were co-transfected with a human β-globin gene in a pBSV-based vector ( 9 ) by the calcium phosphate precipitation method into HeLa cells . |
| 30 | The general principle that dependence/independence status is closely linked with an individual 's point on the lifespan was outlined in the discussion of the model of living , and is certainly applicable to this AL . |