Example sentences of "they [vb past] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met with no resistance from government troops . |
| 2 | Six players had dual qualification and the Exiles were prepared to settle for Dobson and Hunter , but they met with a blanket refusal from the Ulster Branch . |
| 3 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 4 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 5 | ‘ They met with the president . |
| 6 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 7 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 8 | But they agreed with a proposal from the French Government , which is currently responsible for the EC Council of Ministers , to discuss an amendment which would allow the Commission to grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems with liberalisation . |
| 9 | Among those who could not attend but said they agreed with the aims of the delegation were Owen Jones and Bellamy . |
| 10 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 11 | They understood what the black hat meant , and they agreed with the judge . |
| 12 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 13 | ‘ The commission has consulted a lot of people but only listened to what they said when they agreed with the commission , ’ one source said . |
| 14 | Those who attempted to manage the political affairs of a county or district of burghs had not only to contribute towards any public project in their area , they were expected to be the leading subscribers , and it mattered little whether or not they agreed with the project in view . |
| 15 | They agreed with the remark of the great French wine writer André Simon : ‘ Alsatian iz ze dog ’ . |
| 16 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 17 | A few decades later they became even more remote when they passed with the whole of Mesopotamia under the control of the Parthians . |
| 18 | They checked with the firm and they said they did n't repair it , so he got the sack . |
| 19 | The triples did not add significant meaning to the document and they interfered with the flow of thought . |
| 20 | Since issues of property dominate legal work the propertyless have had little cause to encounter it unless they interfered with the interests of those with property . |
| 21 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 22 | Organisers say they complied with the conditions of their licence , but the district council says there have been breaches of the conditions . |
| 23 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |
| 24 | They shared with the rest of their race an almost paranoiac fear and hatred for the informer . |
| 25 | They shared with the foresters a general responsibility for the safe keeping of vert and venison , the sheriff could seize their lands if they failed in their duty . |
| 26 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 27 | With each victory they became ever more heedless of their fate , they fought with no thought for their own lives , possessed by a desire to spill the blood of their enemies . |
| 28 | In nineteen eighty five , they fought with the English at Heysel , and this year , in their domestic league , a number of people have been killed ; it does n't bode well . |
| 29 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 30 | They were fastened together , too , in such a way that they moved with the person — who was Mama . |