Example sentences of "with a [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a fluid movement he stood up and came across to tilt her rigid chin up with his thumb . |
| 2 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 3 | WELL here it comes folks , the biggest , most rip-roaring , full-throttle , Boys Own movie yarn of the year , and resplendent movie with a capital M it most certainly is . |
| 4 | He spoke English with a Texan drawl he had acquired at the University of Austin . |
| 5 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 6 | The home side have lost Mike McEvoy with a shoulder injury he collected in the Essex Amateur XI 's match against Hertfordshire on Sunday and is expected to be out of action for a fortnight . |
| 7 | The home side have lost Mike McEvoy with a shoulder injury he collected in the Essex Amateur XI 's match against Hertfordshire on Sunday and is expected to be out of action for a fortnight . |
| 8 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 9 | To be really sure that one is dealing with a fossil fern it should be possible to see the spore cases , because other kinds of plants can produce fern-like foliage . |
| 10 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 11 | With a building society you 'd get back 90 per cent of your savings and with a bank 75 per cent . |
| 12 | Rear panel features include a line out socket ( when used with a stereo lead the signal is said to be ‘ quasi-balanced ’ ; when used with a mono cable it 's unbalanced ) , a socket for the complementary channel change and reverb footswitch , plus of course the regulation Slo-blo fuse . |
| 13 | With a 10° correction you would have to fly 6 nm before regaining track ( Fig 38a ) . |
| 14 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 15 | With a jerking movement he turned to the house and pushed his way inside . |
| 16 | With a word processor they enjoyed discussing their drafts with each other and with the teacher , and collaborated together on corrections and revisions . |
| 17 | With a word processor you might get bold and underlined with , perhaps , italic . |
| 18 | Well a word processor is much much better to use because it 's so easy to you 've got ta change everything that follows , whereas you know , with a with a word processor you can add paragraphs about words in change words . |
| 19 | Now this kind of ordering text on a page if you 're using a typewriter takes quite a lot of skill but if you 're a , with a word processor it 's actually quite easy . |
| 20 | When dealing with a telephone enquiry it is essential that all the necessary information is at the fingertips of the receptionist as nothing is more irritating on the telephone than hesitancy through lack of knowledge or being asked to hang on whilst information is being looked up — and always have alternatives to offer if the first choice is not available . |
| 21 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 22 | The main reason for fishing the middle line of the river today is that with a head wind it is the safest distance for me to be able to loosefeed easily . |
| 23 | And although his name will always be associated with a Cocktail Party he found such uproarious assemblies , at which no one could have a satisfactory conversation , increasingly insupportable . |
| 24 | Besides , Mandy came over and started tickling her feet with a peacock plume she kept in a vase by the door . |
| 25 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 26 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 27 | Along with a spring balance you also need a weighing sling . |
| 28 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 29 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 30 | no , with a C D I think it 's seven hundred and odd quid in it ? |