Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have er , my parents sat down with a the group of the family there |
| 2 | Yes I remember my granny coming out with the word |
| 3 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 4 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 5 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , my Lord , my wife took up with a hawker and man away five years ago : and I have never seen her since , so I married this other woman last winter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When my wife comes back with the shopping we 're going to try out this new jib ; she 'll be back any minute . |
| 8 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 9 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 10 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 11 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 12 | My dad went off with a Rodeo Groupie , that 's what Mom says . |
| 13 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
| 14 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 15 | My mother looked round with an expression of misgiving . |
| 16 | But , all the same , as she remembered those brief moments in the water , she felt her heart turn over with a flip-flop of pleasure . |
| 17 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 18 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh look how your dumplings are wobbling , ’ he called to her and her tray shook along with the dumplings . |
| 20 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 21 | Her eyes clouded over with the pain of the memories being allowed to surface after so many years of being ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 22 | Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties . |
| 23 | They tend to rely on their parents to put up with the drudgery of queues and are only interested in capitalism and the rewards it can bring . |
| 24 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
| 25 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 26 | In Les Patineurs and Les Rendezvous Ashton makes his dancers travel upwards as well in an effort to show off their abilities to keep up with the music and beat each other to the exit . |
| 27 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 28 | Conservative Members and their predecessors came out with the same sorry story that paying women acceptable wages equal to men 's wages would destroy jobs . |
| 29 | The Dutch are unique in including non-specific urethritis on their contact slips along with the venereal diseases . |
| 30 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |