Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through the hours of dusk he crouched beneath an overhang of bushes under the broken edge of the plateau on which the church stood , and listened to the comings and goings above his head , where the garrison of Parfois boiled with agitated preparations for its lord 's home-coming . |
| 2 | And the year after the Vespers Carlo Borromeo 's nephew , the Neapolitan Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa ( c. 1562–1613 ) , published a set of Responsoria charged with chromatic emotionalism . |
| 3 | She hunted for memories : the rose and umber reefs of Mars lapped with Antarctic snowfields . |
| 4 | Socijalisticka Partija Srbije ( SPS — Socialist Party of Serbia , former League of Communists of Serbia merged with Socialist Alliance of the Working People , Petar Skundric l . ) . |
| 5 | But the most significant part of CIPP dealt with institutional change : the perestroika to follow Sir Peter Imbert 's glasnost which , if implemented , would represent exactly the ‘ profound managerial change ’ recommended by Wolff Olins . |
| 6 | The Chief Constable of Lancashire wrote with some irritation to the County Inspector at Galway , explaining this . |
| 7 | When the Muslim– Druze revolt against Chamoun began with fierce street fighting in Beirut , the Christians noted that the Muslims were using the same pan-Arab rhetoric as Nasser . |
| 8 | On 7 July 1937 Japanese troops on night manoeuvres at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing clashed with Chinese troops . |
| 9 | When Lindbergh flew the Atlantic , he made notes with a Waterman ; Admiral Byrd 's expedition to the Antarctic was equipped with Watermans filled with non-freezing ink ; and Lloyd George signed the Versailles Treaty with , you guessed it , a Waterman . |
| 10 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 11 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 12 | On Oct. 23 police in Colombo clashed with Moslem demonstrators who had responded to a strike call by the Sri Lanka Moslem Congress ( SLMC ) in protest against the massacre . |
| 13 | But such tenancies were very often extremely informal , as those devoted to the cause of improving the state of agriculture in England emphasised with growing intensity from the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Apart from rifling the chests of the Excise offices in the towns they had occupied , the Scots had while in England behaved with remarkable correctness , but now they were increasingly described as thieves and ruffians , an attitude epitomised by the verses written about a group of Yorkshire sportsmen who formed themselves into a unit of amateur warriors known as ‘ The Royal Hunters ’ : |
| 15 | OFFICIALS at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva reacted with resigned anger to the news of yesterday 's forcible repatriation of 51 Vietnamese from Hong Kong . |
| 16 | The opportunities for women to be upwardly mobile within TNCs compared with domestically-owned industries . |
| 17 | Similarly , when G. P. Jones moves from noting the greater prominence of pronouns in Shakespeare compared with other Elizabethans to the statement that his sonnets have ‘ a substantial autobiographical element ’ , and that the ‘ fluctuation between thou and you ’ shows ‘ the poet 's uncertainty about his personal , social and professional connection with his patron is at its most acute ’ , then I feel that such speculations deflect attention from the real focus of interest , the pronouns as forms of relationship . |
| 18 | In addition , however , there is inappropriate staining with antibodies to A and B antigens in PSC compared with other diseases . |
| 19 | Our response was , ’ What about having more bands to take account of the difficulties that arise because of the differences in property prices in London compared with other parts of the country ? ’ |
| 20 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 21 | The ending of serfdom in Pomerania coincided with Prussian efforts to increase the number of German settlers by granting land to those prepared to resist the Ostflucht and settle in the east . |
| 22 | The discreet feelers that she put out during the drive back to Anduze met with monosyllabic replies that indicated , firmly but politely , that the matter was no concern of hers . |
| 23 | The many fragments of clay and stone sacral horns found on the site suggest that the Labyrinth at Knossos bristled with sacral horns . |