Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men ran round to the front door , broke down the door with a sledge hammer and went upstairs , calling for the missing woman . |
| 2 | Very recently , not so long ago , I saw on programme on India , in in one of the sweat-shops , you saw young children , boys and girls about twelve years old , on their hands and knees making matches , and a man walking down the centre with a stick . |
| 3 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 4 | Melissa murmured some banal phrases of encouragement and put down the telephone with a feeling of desolation . |
| 5 | Franca , who had been leaning against the big warm cast-iron stove with a spoon in her hand , threw down the spoon with a clang and marched through the door into her sitting room . |
| 6 | then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my |
| 7 | Our Father went up and down the aisle with a microphone , leading the singing in a tuneless baritone which boomed from a loudspeaker at the front of the bus . |
| 8 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's not plodding up and down the mountainside with a barrel round her neck . ’ |
| 10 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 11 | cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd |
| 12 | The tanks travelled up and down the incline with a freeboard of about nine inches and little water oscillation . |
| 13 | Labour 's Scottish Executive attempted to dampen down the controversy with a report which imposed new machinery , such as new standing orders , to tackle what executive chair Anne McGuire described as ‘ old-fashioned ’ practices . |
| 14 | Labour 's Scottish executive attempted to dampen down the controversy with a report which imposed new machinery , such as standing orders , to tackle what the executive chairwoman , Anne McGuire , described as old-fashioned practices . |
| 15 | Only the children with a smattering of English had any idea what was going on . |
| 16 | The result is that they move along the beach with a type of zigzag motion ( Fig. 8.14 ) . |
| 17 | Bend the ‘ handle ’ down to pull away the cutting with a heel . |
| 18 | but soon the dog with a whimper |
| 19 | And then we used to trim it and er a hat there made of just the straw with a band and bow was over three pound which was a lot of money in those days . |
| 20 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 21 | One of the features of the course is surveying , they tramp over the moor with a theodolite , a staff , surveying poles , and packed lunch , looking for other ley lines . |
| 22 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 23 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 24 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 25 | He shook off the mood with a shrug and grinned back at them . |
| 26 | We round off the holiday with a regatta . |
| 27 | There has been a strong hint that this will be the last competitive Masters for Arnold Palmer , 63 , and it could be the last time we see the jaunty 90-year-old Gene Sarazen , and Sam Snead , 80 in May , lead off the event with a ceremonial nine holes . |
| 28 | Trim off the excess with a knife . |
| 29 | Trim off the excess with a knife . |
| 30 | Once he 's shampooed and rinsed off , scrape off the excess with a plastic sweat scraper and put a rug over him . |