Example sentences of "and [verb] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects . |
| 2 | Tights , which Jane had to pay for herself , were made of thickish cotton and fastened with a coin each side and taped . |
| 3 | Eventually , he left it fully wrapped and fastened with a safety-pin . |
| 4 | She may be under stress and reacting with a tantrum . |
| 5 | No , I 'm not suggesting you come and sit with a stopwatch , because I think that would distract you . |
| 6 | An aquarium of 36″ × 15″ × 12″ should be provided , and furnished with a layer of coarse ( 10mm ) aquarium gravel , upturned flowerpots for refuges , and a piece or two of bogwood are all that is required |
| 7 | Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in . |
| 8 | Over the ages , the shallow basin-shaped depression , 45 feet deep at its centre , had been lined with layers of clay , gravel and impervious mud , and filled with a lake of peat . |
| 9 | We saw this one item almost as a totemic object , tabooed for our clan , and filled with a spirit of otherness . |
| 10 | Fleury , Ford , Burlton , and half a dozen Sikhs , were digging a series of fougasses ( holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with a charge of powder and stones ) , again with the intention of preventing the sepoys from converting their retreat into a rout . |
| 11 | He drummed on the window with the flat of white , spectral hands — eyes turned to his left , in the direction of the glass doors , and filled with a fear and horror that paralysed Cardiff . |
| 12 | Eventually the appointment of the Attorney-General ( Thomas Inskip ) was announced and received with a mixture of ridicule and dismay . |
| 13 | The driver was then seized from behind and treated with a degree of violence ; the offenders demanded money . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The cells were mounted in Citifluor ( City University , London ) and examined with a Zeiss Universal fluorescence microscope and photographed with Tri-X film rated 400ASA . |
| 16 | He swung his legs out of the bed and realised with a shock what day it was . |
| 17 | Lissa 's mouth shaped her distaste , and she put her cup down and realised with a start that Adam was saying something . |
| 18 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 19 | Briefly , after blocking of endogenous peroxidase activity , sections were first incubated with the primary antibody , rinsed , incubated with a peroxidase- conjugated rabbit anti-mouse ( diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) , rinsed and incubated with a peroxidase conjugated swine anti-rabbit antibody . |
| 20 | Leaning forward , he rested his bronzed forearms on the scarred surface and toyed with a pen . |
| 21 | I munched away at my apple and toyed with a piece of cheese as I tried to concentrate on their views on Karl Marx . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the idea of theory may itself need to be theorized and regarded with a measure of scepticism , like other honorific terms in contemporary discourse , such as ‘ politics ’ and ‘ history ’ . |
| 23 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 24 | In the prototype , the battery was housed by folding the tie lining around it , and fastening with a staple . |
| 25 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 26 | But if she faced a China intractably hostile , staunchly pro-American and modernising with a vengeance , would the USSR become more amenable or would she look for a means of escape ? |
| 27 | Spiced with soldier 's slang and scattered with a mix of European languages , it is at times a shocking , at other times a sentimental , but always a worthwhile account . |
| 28 | Ian Baxter admitted charges of grievous bodily harm and interfering with a motor vehicle ; he was jailed for two and a half years . |
| 29 | It starts with an overview of the legal and professional constraints on the engineer , followed by an introduction to the concepts underlying risk management , and finishes with a discussion of the implications for education and public awareness . |
| 30 | This misleading term tends to conceal the fact that dolphins are intentionally located , chased , harassed and encircled with a fishing net , from which attempts may not be made to release them . |