Example sentences of "with [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 2 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 3 | Ron wants to raise money for disabled children , whom he has worked with for many years . |
| 4 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 5 | And she thought for a moment of little Mrs Richards , and the regrets she had lived with for fifty years . |
| 6 | Orbits were fitted to this data set using a metric with for isotropic coordinates . |
| 7 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 8 | The finiteness of the simplex method , established in Chapter 3 , shows that in any sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals , we must eventually reach a tableau with for all critical columns j , and consequently , at the next iteration , a tableau optimal over a non-degenerate interval . |
| 9 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |
| 10 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 11 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 12 | Who did Elton John team up with for last year 's chart smash Do n't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ? |
| 13 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 14 | Far from being a new threat , evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ If I 'm deciding whom I want to live with for 50 years — well , that 's the last decision in which I would want my head to be entirely ruled by my heart ’ . |
| 16 | Behind the solitary constable was a vast army of doppelgänger wheeling and cavorting in the city 's Sefton Park , ready and available to reinforce the power of the patrol officer , a force to be reckoned with for those who might dispute the territory of the street . |
| 17 | Vanderford was the stripper he had lived with for three years in San Francisco , starting in 1980 , when he got out of jail . |
| 18 | Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen . |
| 19 | This guy , [ whom ] I had worked with for seven years , is really very bright . |
| 20 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 21 | Perhaps one of the most welcome results of its installation , has been the fact that hotplates , which can often cause dishes to dry out , can now be dispensed with for high volume catering . |
| 22 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 23 | I worked closely with for 30 years and that relationship became closer and friendlier as the years went by . |
| 24 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 25 | Over 2000 delegates were in attendance with about one third coming from outside the US — this year a contingent of about 30 represented the former communist countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 27 | Environmental protection in the UK cost £14 billion in 1991 , or about 2.5 per cent of the country 's GNP , according to a report by the Department of the Environment , with about one third of the total being paid by the government and the rest by industry and consumers . |
| 28 | Maldom Bada was reportedly arrested at 7 a.m. , along with about 10 other politicians and members of the military . |
| 29 | This month at Exit Art/The First World , the recently expanded art conglomerate founded ten years ago by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo , you can see the very same announcements by Rauschenberg , Duchamp , Rivers & Co that you may have thrown away — along with about 200 others — in ‘ The Design Show ’ , a survey of gallery invitations from the years 1940–92 . |
| 30 | Leave the heads and scales on , and sprinkle the fish with about 1 level tablespoon of salt . |