Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 2 | Next out of the bag came a paper nylon petticoat with many more layers of frothy rainbow-coloured net than the one Sally carefully washed in sugar water after each wearing , and then , to Sally 's delight , a saucy little white basque , boned and trimmed with lace . |
| 3 | A type 2 statistical error is possible in a clinical study of 17 patients , but our observations were very precise and carefully validated and agree with the results of a recent much larger study from Australia . |
| 4 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 5 | The Ironclaw Orcs lived around the Iron Rock for many years , and their fortunes rose and fell with the accustomed regularity of Orc tribes . |
| 6 | The launch , however , behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's this fellow doing here ? ’ she shouted , puffing out her hastily improvised dark veil which rose and fell with each indignant gasp . |
| 8 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 9 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 10 | You can almost see the word ‘ this ’ underlined and highlighted with disgust — ‘ is this the reason for mankind and the millions of years of evolution necessary to produce it ? ’ , says the soldier . |
| 11 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 12 | All around us an increasing crowd was assembling on the platform while the subterranean tunnels thundered and shook with their hidden traffic . |
| 13 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 14 | He moved and spoke with the caution of a glass-boned theologian . |
| 15 | She bent and fiddled with a machine at her feet . |
| 16 | He stopped and toyed with his glass . |
| 17 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 18 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 19 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 20 | The dog whined and squirmed with pleasure , jumping up at the two women in turn . |
| 21 | We found him sitting regally cross-legged on the floor , surrounded by elders chewing tobacco , their mouths rouged and swollen with betelnut juice . |
| 22 | Stephenson roared and howled with laughter , slapping his thigh and stamping in the mud . |
| 23 | And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment . |
| 24 | It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether . |
| 25 | CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITH NO CARD FROM ELEANOR . |
| 26 | Prince Charles Edward Stuart , ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ , came and went with a song , 10,000 starving Highlanders , and 12,000 Glasgow shirts . |
| 27 | Tenants came and went with great rapidity . |
| 28 | Nurses and doctors , oblivious to the scene around them , came and went with pills and potions , drips and plasma . |
| 29 | In the Wilhehnstrasse , a procession of diplomats , including the British Ambassador , Sir Neville Henderson , came and went with their instructions . |
| 30 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |