Example sentences of "with [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said bookings for summer holidays this year were well ahead , with operators competing fiercely on price to capture their share of the market . |
| 2 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 3 | Personal development programmes and consultations with experts ranked highly in only one quarter of schools . |
| 4 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 5 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 6 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 7 | Swollen , inflamed parotids ; sub-mandibular glands too — they may be stony hard with a sensation of tension or pressure around them ; pains often shoot into the ears on swallowing ; dry rough throat with difficulty swallowing especially hot things ; pale face and skin . |
| 8 | Vern Schuppan , not content with building 50 road-going Porsche 962s , will run two rebodied , all-synthetic 962s at Le Mans this year with chassis lifted directly from the road car . |
| 9 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 10 | Cuban relations with Czechoslovakia had already deteriorated sharply in March 1990 when the latter joined Poland , Bulgaria and Hungary in supporting a United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution critical of Cuba . |
| 11 | we 're terrible us girls and what , what with Easter coming up , we 'll be eating all these Easter eggs as well wo n't we ? |
| 12 | And what with Easter coming up as well we 'll be eating all these Easter eggs and |
| 13 | As the exodus proceeds , the sky becomes filled with birds wheeling back and forth . |
| 14 | In this one the ugly old lady with birds turned out to be his friend . |
| 15 | Battered by enemies , most fiercely after the Reformation , it is now a gaunt ruin with seabirds swooping in and out of the gaping socket of its east window . |
| 16 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 17 | A huge chasm had appeared with flames creeping through and billowing smoke filling the air . |
| 18 | With Cooney actions always speak louder than words . |
| 19 | In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July . |
| 20 | Mine takes place in my flat , all over the living-room carpet , with maps spread out like prayer mats and cats lying triumphantly and with great precision on the co-ordinates that are of particular interest . |
| 21 | He added that the number of people with debts totalling more than £10,000 was also a worrying figure . |
| 22 | Maxwell , the UK 's biggest bankrupt with debts totalling more than £405,000,000 , called the ruling " a very public humbling " . |
| 23 | The pair sway from side to side with necks extended forwards , inspect the insides of each others mouths , click their bills shut , wrestle with their bills , point their heads downwards , and then up to the sky . |
| 24 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 25 | It 's O K if your headmasters that run the school change I mean schools tend to change with headmasters do n't they ? |
| 26 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 27 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 28 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 29 | The use of audio or numerics with text does not qualify as multimedia . |
| 30 | The best word processor of the group ; a table is linked to the spreadsheet with text flowing smoothly around it |