Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked her to sign his wretched petition on Friday after he asked me , and got sent away with a flea in his ear . |
| 2 | His clients had pressed ahead with the claim against his companies and Mr Ashton told the Manx judge , John Corrin , that the matter had been settled out of court and Raper was prepared to admit judgment for £11.7m , which would be paid into a firm of local advocates . |
| 3 | The cavity of her abdomen had dropped alarmingly with the removal of its contents . |
| 4 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 5 | Darkness had come prematurely with the deluge , the gloom summoned early by such an abundance of black cloud . |
| 6 | This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie . |
| 7 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 8 | After washing his wounded forearm and hand in the clear cold water , he tore the T-shirt into strips and bandaged the injuries , as he had done earlier with the knife wound in his leg . |
| 9 | Three months later , in April 1945 , he had got further with the idea : |
| 10 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 11 | But friends were not surprised he had slipped away with the physio , who has practices in Sydney and London . |
| 12 | " Father , there is something I would like so much And she had spoken deliberately with the voice of Amabel . |
| 13 | At Falmouth one sunny day with Valiant , I received a frantic call from our catering officer who had gone ashore with the motor boat on a falling tide . |
| 14 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 15 | The proportions of children from each class entering higher education remained much as in the 1920s , although the absolute numbers had increased steadily with the expansion of educational provision . |
| 16 | In the view of William Howard Russell , the first and greatest of war correspondents , the allies " had run away with the notion that [ Sevastopol " ] was a kind of pasteboard city " . |
| 17 | England had all the big men — Bayfield , Dooley and Rodber — yet the Scots had run away with the ball . |
| 18 | The man had run away with the fear and speed of an animal , graceful rather than awkward . |
| 19 | During that period he had co-operated closely with the government in the war against the French and in the subsequent peace . |
| 20 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 21 | Many rightists had worked closely with the Japanese and had so discredited themselves . |
| 22 | Voter turnout , at 68.3 per cent , was higher than had been expected , and the elections had proceeded smoothly with no violence . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 24 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 25 | It 's condition had improved dramatically with the spring grass . |