Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] with the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 2 | They chose us to provide them with the most reliable data network available . |
| 3 | It saw its function not to produce curricular prescriptions but rather ‘ to extend the range of possibilities open to teachers , and to provide them with the most detailed research evidence on which their judgement can be exercised ’ . |
| 4 | And you would miss Carn Mor Dearg which , after the relentless pull to climb on to its broad back , rewards you with the most fabulous views , and an easy walk to its summit . |
| 5 | We guarantee to provide you with the most authoritative , reliable and up-to-date information at the best value for money , and there are never any hidden extras . |
| 6 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 7 | The prospect of Özal 's renewed direct involvement in party politics had reportedly been a key issue at a special ANAP congress on Dec. 1 , with the first 16 defections occurring after the failure of an attempt to unseat party leader Mesut Yilmaz and replace him with the more conservative Ahmet Kececiler . |
| 8 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 9 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 10 | With the election due on Oct. 27 , the latest date allowed by the Constitution , the party took a final desperate gamble by persuading Palmer to resign in September [ see pp. 37716-17 ] and replacing him with the more dynamic Mike Moore . |
| 11 | Sec. in his report gave a resume of the year 's business and in particular referred to the proposed museum and the difficulties of establishing it with the very limited resources at the Society 's disposal . |
| 12 | They also had magnifying glasses to help them with the extraordinarily fine detail which they worked into the seal images : some lenses were found in a Middle Minoan tomb at Knossos . |
| 13 | He nodded , smiling thinly , and fanned himself with the now redundant carpet-beater . |
| 14 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 15 | It was with such proclamations that the Cubists confirmed our lurch into the twentieth century and confronted us with the sometimes harsh realities that are alternative to the Renaissance view of mankind and certainly far removed from the elegances of Art Nouveau , Tiffany 's , the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Métro . |
| 16 | Two weeks later , however , Michael Thomas scored his stunning last-minute Championship-winning goal at Anfield to provide me and thousands like me with the most intense moment of our lives . |
| 17 | Laing was mollified , thanked him with the more formal and gracious ‘ Ashkurak ’ and withdrew . |
| 18 | The redistribution of income and wealth has been matched by a realignment of people 's political allegiances with an increasing number of those with modest resources allying themselves with the most prosperous sections of the community . |
| 19 | If you decide to dispense with a thorough dig through the whole plot and merely take out planting holes , at least try to follow the above principle : dig two spits deep , and reverse them with the more fertile top spit going down to root level . |
| 20 | It is even possible to use this method when there is no suffix involved : you can remember how to spell " separate " ( not " seperate " ) by linking it with the loosely related word " pair " . |
| 21 | Incidentally , he has decided to ally himself with the more stable elements in his life , and now styles himself Roger Foxcroft . |
| 22 | Much more common is for the Act to set out the main framework of the legislation , dealing itself with the more important and general matters , but leaving much to be done later by others , particularly the Minister in charge of the sponsoring department . |
| 23 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 24 | it was very much a composite host , consisting of the Earl 's own feudal manpower , the levies required by the crown , for the support of the Warden , from Border lairds , and bands of assorted mosstroopers belonging to various clans who found it profitable and expedient to ally themselves with the most powerful figure in South-East Scotland , the assembly at Holywell Haugh amounting to about three thousand . |
| 25 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 26 | I intended the word liberal to mean ‘ free ’ , not as identifying me with the almost defunct Liberal Party of that epoch . |
| 27 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 28 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 29 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 30 | Common usage has sifted these terms and left us with the most expressive . |