Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a shriek the last beams of the roof collapsed and pitched down . |
| 2 | Sure , I was standing here with a hole the size of an elephant 's nose guard in my four-set clause . |
| 3 | With a fight the frames were changed to white and yellow which reflects the heat rather than absorb it . |
| 4 | For an extended communication with a computer the ability to edit the input is an important consideration . |
| 5 | [ 12 ] With a click the discreet door shut . |
| 6 | Two adolescent girls in New Zealand had killed with a brick the mother of one of them just because they wanted to . |
| 7 | I recall , while discussing with a neighbour the psychiatric disorder of a co-villager , asking ‘ Is his thinking confused ? ’ |
| 8 | For a rendezvous with a comet the craft would carry cameras and remote-sensing instruments to study and measure the gas and dust boiling off its nucleus . |
| 9 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 10 | You can do it with a turn the carnation pink or you know it 's white , that sort of thing . |
| 11 | Red and white currants here in rows , berries like glass beads , gooseberries with a ripeness the colour of rust on their green cheeks . |
| 12 | The London hotel corridor is full of minders , all sporting various degrees of cowboy drag , and a manager with a belly the size of Memphis . |
| 13 | Even when the embryo begins to gastrulate , if up to 80 per cent of the cells are killed off with a drug the embryo can regulate and quite normal mice can develop . |
| 14 | Sixty-Nine Ninety-five with Range of Attachments for Round-the-House Cleanliness , ’ he added , remembering with a sigh the familiar signs . |
| 15 | Even now , he remembered with a shudder the appalling loneliness of Sunday afternoon , spent trailing noisily around the streets with a group of equally neglected youths , returning to the empty home to eat his supper while the television set bawled commercials at him to fill the silence , until he heard the scrape of his mother 's key in the lock . |
| 16 | I found myself alone with a man the skin of whose face had the texture of hide , tanned the colour of stout . |
| 17 | Your Mum 's got a fanny with a split the wrong way . |
| 18 | You will find that with a wedge the ball will travel most of the way in the air , while with a 5-iron the ball will roll most of the way to the hole . |
| 19 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 20 | If tested with a screwdriver the wood will break away ( — remember to disinfect the screwdriver and your hands afterwards ) . |
| 21 | True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty . |
| 22 | the inspector for pastoral care work co-ordinate with a committee the promotion and development of the pastoral curriculum through INSET |
| 23 | As soon as you start applying a tourniquet then write on your arm or leg with a pen the time that applications started . |
| 24 | with a crayon the outline of its simple shape . |
| 25 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |
| 26 | Excluding the sudden arrival of a frontal system , the wind direction is predictable and you can plan with a map the place most likely to have the ideal cross-shore winds which enable easy launching and recovery . |
| 27 | If you doubt it , try discussing with a lawyer the sensory perceptions of a pilot rotating an aircraft into a climbing attitude while increasing engine power and accelerating , and whether or not the pilot can believe he is pulling the aircraft right up on to its back . |
| 28 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 29 | With a microscope the picture can be explored further still . |
| 30 | The latter , a somewhat shadowy figure in the biographical sources , is chiefly noted in the history of the time for having authorized with a fetva the execution of Seyh Bedreddin Simavi in 823/1420 ( ? ) . |