Example sentences of "with a [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip hoisted it with a stick so it hung over the branch of a tree . |
| 2 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 3 | one day when I said something he come up with a name but it did n't register |
| 4 | In a case brought by the RSPCA , it 's alleged that a horse was repeatedly beaten with a whip after it became stuck on a high gate . |
| 5 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 6 | I was going to have lunch with a client but it got cancelled , so I just stayed here . |
| 7 | Dadda would n't have a phone extension upstairs , preferring to summon him with a shout when it rang . |
| 8 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |
| 9 | It was the first time he 'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary . |
| 10 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 11 | Morocco countered Polisario 's estimate of 75 Moroccan deaths and 75 wounded with a claim that it had lost only five soldiers in comparison with 37 deaths among the guerrillas . |
| 12 | Karpov came prepared with an improvement and it equalised comfortably . |