Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 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 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 9 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 10 | ‘ They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with other girls . |
| 11 | When young people play central parts in adventure stones , their motives and actions are as a rule suitably moderated nor are they expected to concern themselves with elaborate points of honour . |
| 12 | They would seek to liberate themselves with European machinery and European techniques . |
| 13 | Some excitable Slav nationalists still talk of a united Macedonia ; but then some excitable Greek nationalists still want to unite themselves with southern Albania ( North Epirus to them ) , a bit farther west . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Straightforward in principle , although highly complex in technical detail , the majority of today 's desk-top fax machines rarely seek to sell themselves with seductive design ( the usual Japanese route to consumer appeal ) ; they just sit there , looking like little photocopiers or big telephones , doing what they are supposed to do . |
| 17 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 18 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 19 | ‘ There is no way we are going to support it with public money . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | Enough grain is produced to provide everyone with ample protein and more than 3,000 calories per day . |
| 22 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 23 | I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials , which would be suitable ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My milk did n't seem to be coming through so I was told to stuff myself with rich food and carbohydrates . |
| 26 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
| 27 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 28 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 29 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 30 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |