Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 2 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 3 | If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ . |
| 4 | So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit . |
| 5 | Yeah , you 've got to do it with the right inflect as well . |
| 6 | Father had promised to take me with the added bonus of an afternoon off school . |
| 7 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 8 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 9 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 12 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 13 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 14 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 15 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 16 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 17 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 18 | The larger the largest structure in the universe the more difficult it becomes to reconcile it with the uniform distribution of matter in the early universe . |
| 19 | However , this does leave us with the unanswered question of the extent to which schools reflect social practices and the extent to which they shape them . |
| 20 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 21 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 22 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 23 | Welcome to new readers who have joined us with the recent acquisitions of Argyll Services a London-based office and retail cleaning company , Wessex Hygiene Services who specialise in kitchen ventilation and convector cleaning in Bristol , Wiltshire and Somerset , and Rowland Compliance testing who take us into a new realm of contract servicing in circuit testing and maintenance of electrical appliances . |
| 24 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 25 | I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others . |
| 26 | Er but er I 've managed to fiddle it with the suggested preachers for the November series , which I have come a little bit unstuck about . |
| 27 | British exporters have been extremely successful and that is because the Government have provided them with the right framework for success . |
| 28 | An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |
| 29 | Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’ |
| 30 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |