Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cool retrospection leaves the deal they struck with Ian Lang over membership of the proposed committee of the regions looking no more watertight in its assurances and no less ambient of shifty Westminster backstairs bargaining . |
| 2 | In a footnote he does point to the aid they gave with money through the various aid-Spain funds but also derides this contribution , emphasising that ‘ the sum raised … would not equal five per cent of the turnover of the football pools during the same period . ’ |
| 3 | Oh it 's it 's quite common , everybody does it if you have a vic if you study Victorians anyone who a Victorian and they all they did all done out , chairs er table space at the front , they did drill in the playground they played with tops and hoops in the playground , all the children the m parents hired costumes from Fairy Godmothers Fairy Godmother 's done a roaring trade especially |
| 4 | When they had returned Mena Iskander to her amused husband they went with Jane Postlethwaite back to her hotel , where Owen earned unmerited credit for his morning 's occupation . |
| 5 | Well , it was mainly altruism ; to an extent the relationship they had with William Charles , the poor relation up from the country , was a symbiotic one . |
| 6 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 7 | Men who were ‘ in love ’ with the first woman they slept with 10% |
| 8 | The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ? |
| 9 | Women who were ‘ in love ’ with the first man they slept with 50% |
| 10 | Three cheers to UEFA for taking such swift action — in contrast to the way they dithered with Leeds United and Stuttgart last season . |
| 11 | yes , and I sometimes think that way I know with Ken 's two brothers the way they behaved with wife number one and the way they are with wife number two is a different world . |
| 12 | But nobody ever came into the woods to shake their finger in my face and lay down the law , the way they did with Gittel in the dorf . |
| 13 | Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work . |
| 14 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
| 15 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |