Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] with [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they had followed their main course with torta di albicocche , a sweet pastry case filled with apricots in a creamy egg custard . |
| 2 | At a junk-shop a little further along I saw a china snuff-box painted with ribbons in lover's-knots , and an M on the lid , which I bought for Mavis . |
| 3 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 4 | The Nomura Room at the Tate Gallery has recently undergone complete refurbishment , including a brand new lighting installation completed with lamps from Osram . |
| 5 | Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners . |
| 6 | HSBC , which is expected to release good profits on Monday , still fell 38p to 603p , reflecting the 200-point drop in the Hang Seng index after the Hong Kong governor 's decision to proceed with plans for partial democracy in the colony in the teeth of Chinese hostility . |
| 7 | On Aug. 2 , 1989 , the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala confirmed its decision to proceed with investigations into the former Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , K. Karunakaran , and his Education Minister , T. M. Jacob , after the report of a commission into irregularities surrounding the publication of pre-degree examination results in 1986 . |
| 8 | This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea . |
| 9 | He described an adequate marriage as having periods of intimacy interspersed with periods of autonomy for both partners , who , at the same time , do not allow the relationship to become too tenuous and know that the other will be there when needed . |
| 10 | The water managers will push water in or hold water out according to a computer programmed with decades of data about rainfall and drought . |
| 11 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 12 | There is also a beautiful altar rail decorated with ears of corn , grapes , etc. — all references to the Sacrament . |
| 13 | The two-volume Doves Press edition of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained with capitals by Edward Johnston and Graily Hewitt was also unsold , against an estimate of £300-£400 . |
| 14 | It is also an ideal opportunity to meet with members of other district societies to learn how they approach matters . |
| 15 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
| 16 | Belgo styles itself as a brewery eating hall , serving an extraordinary range of potent Belgian brews with names like Kwak and Delerium Tremens . |
| 17 | He lay down , unable to sleep , his mind filled with visions of the dead girl . |
| 18 | Her mind filled with images of police cars , interrogations , court scenes . |
| 19 | Then , with nothing else left to do , she crawled into bed and slept fitfully , her mind filled with images of Jack 's beloved , dirt-streaked face laughing into the camera . |
| 20 | Her mind filled with pictures of the old grey-stone manor house , surrounded by peaceful green fields , where the children could run and play to their hearts ' content . |
| 21 | There is provision for overtime to cope with periods of peak demand , but with demand generally static or declining during the early 1980s the need for this has only arisen during periods of particularly hot weather ( beer sales are notoriously weather sensitive ) . |
| 22 | The late sub editor , a lovely Irishman called Bill Shedee , had his own solution to a prodigious thirst — he kept his locker stacked with bottles of Double Diamond . |
| 23 | Afterwards , each of the 100 guests at the £4,000 lunch was given a small album filled with pictures of the couple smiling happily with their sons . |
| 24 | The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu . |
| 25 | A veteran local government leader in Coventry who went into city politics from the car factories where he was a militant shop steward , remembers an attempt to communicate with electors after the Second World War : |
| 26 | Blue Velvet starts with things in the grass eating each other , continues in a surreal Norman Rockwell setting of red fire engines and sunny weather , and finally unfolds into the sexual violence of Hopper and Rossellini 's scenes ( whose use of blue velvet is not one Bobby Vinton had envisaged ) and the sheer terror of MacLachlan 's night ride into hell . |
| 27 | A decade or three back , when most of us could visit most countries without a visa , there was little expectation that this would prove a high water mark and that restrictions would steadily increase , but we may not be able to assume that the freedom to dial direct to distant countries will continue to increase : Egypt has cut direct-dial telephone links with Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iraq , Sudan and Iran to make it harder for Moslem militant leaders in exile to communicate with groups at home and organise terrorist attacks , the Al-Akhbar newspaper reports ; it is still possible to call via an operator . |
| 28 | From her pretty cream bedroom in the first floor nursery , Diana enjoyed a pleasant prospect of grazing cattle , a patchwork of open fields and parkland interspersed with copses of pine , silver birch and yew . |
| 29 | The This Week programme made with Friends of the Earth centres on MPL , but a report claims many other companies were involved in defrauding the Ghanaian economy of a total of £30m by taking advantage of aid opportunities in its timber industry . |
| 30 | The best chance of acclimatization occurs with acquisitions of about 2″ in length , which are small enough to adapt to new foods and large enough to survive in tank conditions . |