Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as she was aware , no one had cut themselves or pricked themselves with a needle . |
| 2 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 3 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 4 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 5 | And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now . |
| 6 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 7 | Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ? |
| 8 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury . |
| 9 | The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee . |
| 10 | She was nearly home and someone jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood . |
| 11 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 12 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 13 | Shiona twisted round and pierced him with a look . |
| 14 | In a sense then , the fate of Simmel 's work is at present parallel to that of Hegel 's , in as much as later authorities have appropriated his ideas and aligned them with a theory of rupture seen as specific to capitalism . |
| 15 | Jitters took careful aim , and got him with a headshot . |
| 16 | So we spent the night at a cheap bed and breakfast nearby , and fortified ourselves with a breakfast of sausages , bacon and eggs . |
| 17 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 18 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 19 | Barbara Coleman stopped pouring and fixed her with a very severe look . |
| 20 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 21 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
| 22 | Somebody singled him out and smacked him with a car . |
| 23 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 24 | He stopped a pace or two away from the bed and regarded her with an unexpectedly teasing glint in his eyes . |
| 25 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 26 | He glanced across at the waiting technicians and dismissed them with a gesture . |
| 27 | Henry smiled and dismissed us with a flick of his fingers . |
| 28 | However , he fully redeemed himself next time out at Newbury when he gave 2st to Springholm and beat him with a bit in hand . |
| 29 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 30 | A brawl among three women , for example , resulted in one of them ‘ scoring her face with a door key ’ because the other woman ‘ tore her hair and beat her with a poker ’ . |