Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 she 'll sit down with perhaps a pen in her hand and then go up and
2 I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’
3 While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled .
4 He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people .
5 Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word .
6 I let her off with just a sound punch to the rib region : - )
7 But it was suddenly called off with just a week to go .
8 But she knew at once why I had asked and went on with hardly a break for punctuation , ‘ Well , love , what 's with you ?
9 Crosby , battling on with only a one-year-contract and persistent speculation about his future , reckons the only way to silence the gossips is by climbing into the promotion frame .
10 We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point .
11 If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies .
12 She only did , them drama people came up with quite a lot ideas
13 The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii .
14 The next day , the villagers found Babushka dead in the straw , curled up with only an ox and an ass to watch over her .
15 But 39-year-old Patrese clambered out with just a pair of bruised knees and trembling hands .
16 It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before .
17 I went out with quite a lot of men before I met Stuart .
18 He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points .
19 Doodle , a funny little insect thing , is determined to rescue the fair maiden and sets out with only a set of pencils to his name .
20 You were out here swimming around with not a stitch on .
21 I began confidently enough , with a humorous extract , but when the first couple of jokes went by with never a chuckle from the audience , I became nervous .
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