Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 3 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 4 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 5 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |
| 6 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 9 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 10 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 11 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 12 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 13 | Constitutional fundamentals have been opened up with a vengeance . |
| 14 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 15 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 16 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 17 | I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea ! |
| 18 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 19 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 20 | Outlines and details are drawn in with a Rotring pen . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 22 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 23 | The shift in the importance and growth of manufacturing within the national economy has been bound up with a similar change in the geography of manufacturing . |
| 24 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 25 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 26 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 27 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |
| 28 | It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children . |
| 29 | A new high-profile lobbying organization has been set up with a view to rasing environmental issues in the European Commission . |
| 30 | THE one-time sleepy world of pensions has been woken up with a series of rude shocks . |