Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a moan of effort the unloved flat slowly responds to the female presence . |
| 2 | Rose had enrolled Gabriel , with a jump of surprise the girl admitted it . |
| 3 | Likewise he knew to take with a pinch of salt the recruiting officer 's : " We will get TSA membership . |
| 4 | In conjunction with a state of emergency the President might also impose temporary direct presidential rule over a union republic . |
| 5 | It may however , present a defendant in a criminal trial with a way of side-stepping the requirement that only the Attorney may bring actions for unintentional contempt . |
| 6 | With a bit of luck the passage would be empty . |
| 7 | With a bit of luck the three of us should be able to get together tonight . ’ |
| 8 | Rather when Carla comes back Monday you 've got to tape the with a bit of wood the window just outside the door because the bolt is on the same side . |
| 9 | Mucky hands and a fat bank balance would be a way of life for the first generation of nouveaux-riches manufacturers ; but with a bit of care the brass itself could be used to buy their children out of the world of muck altogether . |
| 10 | She recalled with a sense of shock the queen-dowager 's words , her uneasy reference to Richard of Gloucester , when commanded to relinquish her younger son . |
| 11 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 12 | The loss compares with a profit of £1.2m the previous year . |
| 13 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 14 | More bits of layette arrive from all parties , including a romper-suit with a picture of Horace the Happy Horse on it , which Paul furtively throws in the dustbin . |
| 15 | The class list of children 's names can be in the program together with a set of comments the random selection of child plus a comment , eg , ‘ Wake up Hilary ’ , certainly keeps the class on its toes . |
| 16 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |
| 17 | The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding . |
| 18 | He knew he was behaving ludicrously and the sooner he got the wench locked up with a pack of nuns the better . |
| 19 | One day he excelled himself , turning up with a piece of furniture the size of a large sideboard which housed the coveted television set along with a radiogram and a place to keep your records . |
| 20 | Two coats of arms in the lower corners of the flanking foliate borders enabled scholars to trace the piece to Nuremberg , to connect it with a married couple , to date it to around 1465 , and to associate it with a group of antependia the mourning widow contributed to altars in the Lorenzkirche . |
| 21 | IN this chapter we are concerned with a group of torts the function of which is to protect some of a person 's intangible interests — those which may loosely be called his business interests — from unlawful interference . |
| 22 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 23 | Sadly , the only conclusion I 've been able to arrive at since Mr Lamont did his bit , is that the sooner I become a recluse with a string of racehorses the better and that ca n't be right . |
| 24 | By the time Edward returned with a tray of beer-cans the fire was blazing with famished enthusiasm . |
| 25 | With a minimum of equipment the beginner can soon produce clouds of two of the aptly named Aristocrats class of butterflies : the small tortoiseshell and the peacock . |
| 26 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |