Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press . |
| 2 | When I used to get all excited about the projects you got involved with years ago , you used to slap me down with that . |
| 3 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 4 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 5 | Someone spills the maple syrup , and tries to mop it up with another table 's tablecloth . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought that bastard was going to run you through with that knife and take you away from me — ’ His voice broke and he dragged her closer , burying his face in her hair . |
| 7 | We would generally feel that the welfare of people who need to knock themselves out with some kind of drug and need to spend a large part of their lives thus self-narcotised is less good than that of people who do not need to . |
| 8 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 9 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 10 | Was I going to have it off with this woman and a couple of goats ? |
| 11 | Interviewed by the Irish Independent , she said : ‘ Any man would be mad to take me on with all these children . |
| 12 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 13 | However , the participants of the Geneva conference recognised the incomplete nature of their work and they hoped to follow it up with another conference . |