Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 2 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 3 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 4 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 5 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 6 | There are several people who will probably need to help you with various parts of the work from the very beginning to completion ; Environmental Health Officers , Builders , Architects or Surveyors , Building Control Officers and Occupational Therapists . |
| 7 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 8 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 9 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 10 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 11 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 12 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 13 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 14 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 15 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 16 | ‘ They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with other girls . |
| 17 | Kirsty 's solvent abuse has left her with serious health problems . |
| 18 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 19 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 20 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 21 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 22 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 23 | ‘ There is no way we are going to support it with public money . |
| 24 | Gqozo told the conference that the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) had promised to provide him with military support if the ANC again entered Ciskei [ see p. 39078-79 ] . |
| 25 | I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials , which would be suitable ? |
| 26 | With many types of sailing holiday spread around different resorts in Greece , Turkey or Sardinia , it 's difficult to avoid boring you with repeated descriptions . |
| 27 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 28 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
| 29 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 30 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |