Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she returned shortly afterwards with a thick roll of notes fastened with a rubber band and Melanie counted out seventy-eight pounds and a ten shilling note and the woman gave her five shillings from her alligator purse . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees . |
| 3 | Dazed with the heat and noise , sickened by the stink of oil and sweat , eyes , ears and throats filled with a soft clogging dust like the seeds from a million dandelions , they toiled on and on . |
| 4 | And you do n't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar . |
| 5 | All of this must be achieved against a background of general practitioners in inner cities struggling with an increasingly challenging role as services providers in primary care . |
| 6 | In three of these cases referred with a probable diagnosis of achalasia , however , the absence of peristalsis in the body of the oesophagus helped to confirm the diagnosis . |
| 7 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 8 | Tin cans filled with a mixture of old tea leaves and coal dust gave a lovely glow and plenty of heat . |
| 9 | Cracks should be repaired with a filler , and porous surfaces primed with a sealant or a diluted coat of masonry paint . |
| 10 | The judge has power under s 65(1) of the 1984 Act to refer to the district judge or to a referee ( N 280 ) for inquiry and report : ( 1 ) any proceedings which require any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which can not , in the opinion of the judge , conveniently be made before him ; ( 2 ) any proceedings where the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account ; ( 3 ) with the consent of the parties , any other proceedings ; ( 4 ) subject to any right to have particular cases tried with a jury , any question arising in any proceedings . |
| 11 | The birds responded with a loud cry of ‘ Ti-lo Ti-lo ! ’ |
| 12 | Bodie laughed , and Ray Doyle 's eyes twinkled with a momentary amusement . |
| 13 | Behind the house , the ground sloped down to the river and the waving tasselled heads of the rushes gleamed with a light that was between silver and gold . |
| 14 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |
| 15 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 16 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 17 | Her eyes filled with a hot prickling that he should humiliate her in public , with half of Venice floating by . |
| 18 | For a moment she stared up at him , her fists clenched at her sides , her grey eyes filled with a crystalline chill totally at variance with the molten rage that consumed her . |
| 19 | He caught her exploring fingers and lifted them to his mouth and kissed them quickly , his eyes filled with a wry mockery as he studied her flushed face . |
| 20 | As she lay blinking blindly into the unfamiliar darkness , her ears filled with a strange background hum , her tired and sleepy brain slowly realised that the sound which had awoken her had been her own desperate sobbing . |
| 21 | Endill was a little suspicious of Mould , not because of what the Headmaster had said , but because his eyes glowed with a life of their own , as if there was something burning inside his head . |
| 22 | Her blue eyes glowed with a rebellious light . |
| 23 | The religious officer 's artificial sapphire eyes glowed with an inner light as he gazed at Lexandro . |
| 24 | His eyes glowed with an extraordinary fervour . |
| 25 | So the stark fact is that , even if there were a mortgage recovery , the societies would not have the funds to cope with an increase in borrowing . |
| 26 | Once you have opened your Premier Savings account with a minimum of £5000 , you can add any amount to your savings at any time . |
| 27 | These data can be compared with the outcome in ears treated with a ventilation tube or adenoidectomy or both . |
| 28 | The test requires the child to select one of a pair of pictures to go with a stimulus sentence . |
| 29 | Calling this demand " brazen and provocative " , the North Koreans responded with a nine-point set of new preconditions for inspection , including the South 's renunciation of United States nuclear protection , an end to nuclear military exercises and a ban on US aircraft and ships carrying nuclear weapons from entering Korean ports or territory . |
| 30 | Before that the chronological sequence of songs starts with a charming Gounod-like salon piece , and follows the composer 's development , after which the collection is crowned by the best-loved Verlaine settings . |