Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever teaches you how to ride — you are given the opportunity with stabilisers and encouragement , with the right environment being a smooth , safe pavement . |
| 2 | Keeping furniture to a minimum , she had filled the place with books and plants . |
| 3 | How poignantly vignetted was the ice in Alexander Nevsky , but Eisenstein would have stabbed the projectionist with icicles . |
| 4 | She 'd made the deadline with minutes to spare . |
| 5 | She had given herself two days , no more , and it was as if her urgency had crowded the place with chances . |
| 6 | The old walled town around the castle has become the CBD with shops , banks and offices . |
| 7 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 8 | Snipe — striped plumage camouflaged the colour of dead winter reeds — probed the mud with bills bizarrely long . |
| 9 | Thirty-three-year-old Matthew Kincaid , from Forthriver Road , north Belfast , was alleged to have demanded the money with menaces from the businessman , described as ‘ Witness A ’ , between February 7 and March 9 this year . |
| 10 | Twenty-four-year-old Alicia Smith , a single parent who lives at Foxglove Drive , had spent the evening with relatives in Four Marks after attending a funeral in the Slough area . |
| 11 | They have softened the room with cushions and tartan throws , to make it a cosy base for the family over Christmas . |
| 12 | Athelstan is known to have endowed the church with lands following his success against the Scots and Danes at the battle of Brunanburg consequent upon his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John . |
| 13 | When the tables had been cleared and those who could do so had entertained the rest with songs and recitations , the whole company settled down for a sing-song . |
| 14 | The French mercenary leader Bob Denard , who for a brief period had ruled the island with members of the former Presidential Guard following the death of President Abdullah [ see p. 37033 ] , was deported on Dec. 15 , 1989 , initially to South Africa , along with other mercenaries . |
| 15 | SCOTTISH TV has hit the jackpot with profits nearly doubled to £2.2 million in six months . |
| 16 | There are 11 British survivors , with Joanne Hockley and Caroline Hall having led the way with aggregates of 157 . |
| 17 | Basically , I just seem to have lost the knack with men . |