Example sentences of "with [adv] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only a minute to half-time Carol Burns made it four , and just into the second-half Rhoda Campbell added another . |
| 2 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 3 | ‘ And then , years later , when Ryan died with not a penny to his name , I jumped to all the wrong conclusions — and , of course , you let me . |
| 4 | One long blast on the whistle from Mr. Windust and everyone came to attention on the spot with not a sound to be heard . |
| 5 | It stretched for miles in each direction , with not a soul to be seen . |
| 6 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 7 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
| 8 | Bethan Roberts sailed through adolescence and early adulthood with hardly a blemish to her name . |
| 9 | Agriculture coped with the demands of the growing population with almost no recourse to imports . |
| 10 | What 's more , the enormous engineering project is being carried out with virtually no disruption to the hectic traffic flow through the city . |
| 11 | His blue eyes flayed her , as he demanded harshly , ‘ Do you deny that he died with barely a penny to his name ? ’ |