Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [det] [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 However , it should be kept in mind that a number of those recorded as having agreed to the proposition in respect of all practices may not in fact have agreed with that proposition at all .
2 Spitting and spluttering , he braced his body across the pipe and clutched with both hands at everything within reach .
3 But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks .
4 However much the excise supervisor may have been appreciated by the councillors of St. Andrews , he was regarded with less enthusiasm at the Treasury , and the member of parliament was told bluntly that if any office about St. Andrews fell vacant , which was usually left to the recommendation of the Burgh Member , he should have the nomination , and as Scott advised the provost , ‘ they hoped that from reasons which must naturally occur to myself , I would be satisfied with the propriety of their answer ’ .
5 In his book Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital Bukharin had already dealt with such questions at some length .
6 ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies .
7 Jane Wallace looks at two common problems which will be experienced with most horses at some stage or other : shying and pulling .
8 Charles thinks if anything happens it will be co-ordinated with this strike at Sheffield and the peace demonstration tomorrow . ’
9 Given that the problem of teenage smoking needed to be tackled with some urgency at that time ( and still does ) , such a course of action was understandable .
10 You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page .
11 Just drill a hole in the middle of the lid large enough to take a 15mm 90 degree plastic elbow , to which the pipe is then fitted with another elbow at the top .
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