Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 2 | A moving map display made for GA aircraft by the Digital Sky division of U.S. electronics company Thermwood Inc has recently been modified to allow it to interface with the well-known Stormscope WX10A . |
| 3 | But now , buoyed by the prospect of a landslide victory in March , they no longer want to have anything to do with the disreputable Mr Le Pen . |
| 4 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 5 | If the client refuses to let them communicate with the auditors , then they should turn the job down . |
| 6 | It provides us with the data , but school children will probably lose interest , so I 've decided to keep them going with the , and they 're quite happy about that . |
| 7 | She felt pleased — not wanting to have anything to do with the squabbles of these upper-class money-grubbers . |
| 8 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |
| 9 | And then , when that clearly had n't worked , Laura had found herself lapsing into a sullen , resentful attitude , defiantly refusing to have anything to do with the beastly old woman . |
| 10 | As for the Scottish envoys … first , a journey by land is too dangerous ; secondly , our good King Henry believes this is a Scottish matter and does not wish to intervene officially ; finally , Queen Margaret and her household , on the other hand , do not wish to be seen to have anything to do with the men who drove her from Scotland . ’ |
| 11 | Local MP , Barry Legge has written to say he sympathises with the villagers , but insists it 's a matter for the planners . |
| 12 | ‘ I hear a lot of talk about customers going diesel , but everyone is on the fence waiting to see what happens with the Conservatives ’ promised benefit-in-kind tax review . |
| 13 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 14 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 15 | From the lack of overlap between the patrons of the two ventures , it seems likely that the progressive bourgeoisie of ESPEW were not disposed to back the printing initiative supported by a more conservative section of the upper class , nor apparently was the venture connected to the NAPSS , which , as the Scottish Typographical Circular pointed out , " so far as Scotland is concerned , declined to have anything to do with the attempt to introduce women into the printing business " . |
| 16 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 17 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 18 | After some reflection , she was unable to offer any rule but said , quite correctly , ‘ It seems to have something to do with the verb . ’ |
| 19 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 20 | The effects may not seem to have anything to do with the work , but if disunity and depression occur it 's quite likely that there is an unseen cause . |
| 21 | The Founders had to agree everything to do with the paper , including the appointment of the sponsoring merchant bank . |
| 22 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 23 | If you wish to discuss anything to do with the protection of inventions , designs , copyright or trademarks , please contact him beforehand at |
| 24 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 25 | In both of these instances children need prompt attention and help to teach them to cope with the problem . |
| 26 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 27 | It was as if , thought Henry , she wished to have nothing to do with the dispute she knew this word would provoke . |
| 28 | ‘ Even though the poll tax has only two months to go , we 'll continue to defend anyone threatened with the brutality of the sheriff officers in keeping up our 100 per cent record on stopping warrant sales . ’ |
| 29 | It is therefore a good idea not only to take note of and practise stress patterns in words in isolation , but also study to see what happens with the stress when the same words are put in various sentences . |
| 30 | It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other . |