Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
| 2 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 3 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 4 | Of many cup-painters the greatest , perhaps , with Onesimos , is one who worked regularly with a potter Brygos but has not left his own name , so the Brygos Painter . |
| 5 | I was sharing a flat with a Potter that year and they beat us ( 7–1 I think ) . |
| 6 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 7 | The girl mounted her cycle and imparted this gloomy information with a cheerfulness that stated her wish to see Jenna disappear altogether . |
| 8 | I shall be a whore , and leave you with a whore 's kiss . ’ |
| 9 | Their most famous inhabitant had been a crazy man , a drunk , a painter , a man who made no secret of his liaison with a whore . |
| 10 | I can not share a room never mind my husband , with a whore ! ’ |
| 11 | The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free . |
| 12 | Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models . |
| 13 | Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models . |
| 14 | Beyond the Leonardo monument and the row of yellow taxis , each with a driver whose disregard for your safety if you try to cross the road in front of them is as remarkable as any of da Vinci 's theories , is La Scala . |
| 15 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 16 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 17 | They were going by minibus to London for the visit to the Tate Gallery , with a driver , and the transport alone was £15 a head . |
| 18 | The furious rush and release of a full-blooded hit with a driver to the Buddha-like calm required to hole a four-foot downhill putt , and everything else in between , would require a whole pharmacy . |
| 19 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 20 | Yet , with a driver or 3-wood , everything is in your favour . |
| 21 | In the middle of the window was a shiny red car you could sit in with a driver 's wheel you could turn and a horn you could peep . |
| 22 | When he arrived at Glasgow , there would be a car to pick him up , with a driver who knew the Scottish lowlands ‘ like the inside of his sporran ’ . |
| 23 | Brian would have his damages reduced for contributory negligence in riding with a driver who he knew was drunk and in failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 24 | This would explain the cases where the plaintiff accepts a lift with a driver whom he knows is drunk . |
| 25 | THE move towards making driver side airbags standard equipment on all United Kingdom cars continued this week when Vauxhall announced that every new Vauxhall Cavalier , Calibra and Astra GSi will be fitted with a driver side airbag from now on — at no extra cost , writes Jim Dunn . |
| 26 | While few doubt that the Vauxhall move is aimed at upstaging Ford , whose Mondeo goes on sale next month with a driver side bag as standard , the Vauxhalls will be fitted with the full size , US-specification airbag designed to save the driver in a frontal impact without relying on a seatbelt . |
| 27 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 28 | They began at lunch with a conversation on cunning . |
| 29 | Since the strength of feeling by the Norfolk members Chairman only became really apparent in the last two dates and the wires of telephones were hot yesterday with a conversation between myself and others north of the border and since discussions we held yesterday with representatives of the Department of Transport in Bedford indicates a solution to suit all interests to make it achievable . |
| 30 | It opened with a siren and a man trying to follow as much of the government 's advice as he could in the time available . |