Example sentences of "and [verb] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry swallowed the soft strangulation of tears and clung with desperate hands to the obstinacy that must do duty for his flagging courage . |
| 2 | The moment had come upon him too soon ; he felt his knees soften , and clung with rigid fingers to the pillar behind which he sheltered . |
| 3 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 4 | She wore a dirty apron in dark , printed cotton , which went round her back and fastened with thin tapes , pulled awry over her black skirt and sweater , and she appeared flustered . |
| 5 | The extended professional , on the other hand , is concerned with locating his classroom teaching in a broader educational context , comparing his work with that of other teachers , evaluating his own work systematically , and collaborating with other teachers . |
| 6 | Perhaps they would go down to the harbour in the evening and watch the yachts coming in to the anchorage , and sit with other groups at the chairs and tables outside the Bell Inn . |
| 7 | The building has been carpeted throughout and furnished with new blinds and new lino . |
| 8 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 9 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 10 | They had stayed in the abbey kicking their heels and helping with administrative tasks to pay their way ; now , one of them was only too happy to take the letter and ride south with Corbett 's instructions ringing in his ears . |
| 11 | This includes manning tutorials , marking and commenting on assignments , and helping with residential schools . |
| 12 | The pastry cases are cooked blind ( do not forget to prick the base with the tip of a sharp little knife ) protected with paper ( it burns easily , like all pastry containing sugar ) and filled with dry beans or rice . |
| 13 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 14 | Five miles outside Machynlleth in central Wales the centre occupies a disused quarry which has been surrounded with windmills and filled with gleaming solarpanels . |
| 15 | All these factors produce an environment which is dry , dusty and filled with microscopic spores and dust mite droppings which sensitize the linings of the lungs , throat , nose and eyes . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there are cases in which underlying sexual difficulty can be traced and adjusted with far-reaching results in reducing other problems to manageable proportions . |
| 17 | The child was born in January 1984 and lived with her parents until 1986 when , on suspicion of sexual abuse , she was taken into care and placed with foster parents . |
| 18 | Accordingly , an emergency protection order was obtained and T. was removed from her mother 's care and placed with foster parents . |
| 19 | Others have been taken " on spec " and placed with suitable magazines at a later date . |
| 20 | They squawk and scratch with unturned-out feet in temps levés and batterie , elbows flapping and heads pecking and poking . |
| 21 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 22 | Most achondrites are ‘ breccias ’ — rocks that have been crushed and recemented with angular fragments ( clasts ) lying in a finer-grained matrix , Before the Antarctic programme , two of the more common types of achondrites were classified as eucrites and howardites on the basis of the number of source rocks among their clasts and on the magnesium content of their pyroxine minerals ( Mg , Fe , Ca ) 2Si206 , — pyroxenes are the most abundant iron magnesium silicates in igneous rocks . |
| 23 | The P Note , usually rolled and tied with ribbon , is presented and received with two hands , bows are repeated , and the creditor 's representative may then leave , having shown suitable gratitude for the debtor 's benevolence throughout the performance . |
| 24 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 25 | They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’ |
| 26 | AS England 's most capped and successful scrum-half , Richard Hill could be forgiven for swapping his boots for a pair of slippers and gazing with fond memories at a trophy cabinet bulging with evidence of a career full of top honours . |
| 27 | Use the darkest pinks on lids and lips , for example , then lightly highlight cheeks , chin and browbone with paler tones in the same family . |
| 28 | First of all he was put on a yeast-free , sugar-free diet and treated with essential oils of garlic , tea-tree and thyme . |
| 29 | For DNaseI footprinting , the BglI-NaeI fragment ( nucleotides -594 to -291 ) was end-labelled , complexed with proteins and treated with increasing concentrations of DNaseI . |
| 30 | The report was immediately dismissed as ‘ Marxist ’ by a government spokesman and criticized with varying degrees of vigour by many Conservatives . |