Example sentences of "and [vb past] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Kingdom law was already well developed and complied with most ( if not all ) of the Directive 's provisions . |
| 2 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 3 | So I left again and lived with this other woman for the next four years , but the relationship was ruined because Marie would n't leave us alone . |
| 4 | Alexander found that the control group shared the views of the complainants and disagreed with those supporting the managers in 18 out of 20 areas . |
| 5 | How was such malignant hatred brought to birth , when he had meant nothing but good , and tried with all his soul to work no evil against them ? |
| 6 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 7 | Kerensky left the capital and tried with little success to raise loyal troops . |
| 8 | He pocketed it , leaned on the door a little harder , and tried with another . |
| 9 | These depict foppish dwellings , tastefully furnished in plain wood and provisioned with all kinds of ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ gadgets . |
| 10 | And then you went and danced with that Lout — and with Herman . |
| 11 | There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition . |
| 12 | I jumped the iron spikes and landed with both feet on the concrete , then ran over the narrow top of the pipe and jumped down on to the island . |
| 13 | I screamed and pulled with all my might , shaking my hands and my head and throwing myself backwards and over as I did so , banging one knee off the gun where it lay , fallen in the sand . |
| 14 | But the hints and intimations which it conveyed to her stretched far , far away , into the past and the future , and she had a sudden , piercing , painfully beautiful vision of a life where men with book shops called upon friends for the pleasure of society , and quarrelled with those friends upon topics as elevated , as unworldly and as magnificent as the Labour Party . |
| 15 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 16 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 17 | it mapped directly onto the fault-finding model and coped with both experienced and inexperienced personnel . |
| 18 | She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife . |
| 19 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 20 | She inhaled the aroma of his thick black coffee and looked with some doubt at her murky cup of tea . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's this fellow doing here ? ’ she shouted , puffing out her hastily improvised dark veil which rose and fell with each indignant gasp . |
| 22 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 23 | The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar and lay with some stranger … after sexual union has made the woman holy in the goddess ' sight , she returns home … |
| 24 | Taking a deep breath , Mungo leapt up from the sagging mattress , clutched the sill , and heaved with all his might . |
| 25 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 26 | Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom . |
| 27 | The speech further strengthened German-UK ties [ see also p. 38022 ] and contrasted with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's October 1988 " Bruges speech " on limits to integration in Europe [ see p. 36491 ] . |
| 28 | The chosen pair were placed in separate tanks and cosseted with all the best foods until the female appeared to be in breeding condition . |
| 29 | They had one son and two daughters , one of whom , Geraldine , trained as an actress and singer and appeared with some success before her death in 1984 . |
| 30 | Polly found her tongue at last and spoke with all the frosty dignity she could muster . |