Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , they would remove what is undoubtedly , in the case above , the single most important feature needed to understand what is being said : the fact that these two people are involved in moving a piano and A ( a middle-aged man trying to assert his authority ) is already supporting its weight : hence , perhaps , his impatience , breathlessness , and desperate switch from ordering to pleading with B , a youth who has only reluctantly agreed to come along and help . |
| 2 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 3 | I have been sufficiently foolhardy to raise the issue from time to time with small groups of individuals who put their point of view to me when it is easy to be civilised and who propose arrangements whereby Sunday trading could be limited to certain times , to shops of a particular size , to the selling of particular goods or to certain types of shop . |
| 4 | We may have to bring in assistance from outside to deal with specific problems , and Mr Whittaker 's network of contacts could be used for this purpose . |
| 5 | There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes . |
| 6 | He looks quickly in his mirror , and sees the head of the man in the car behind move from side to side with sardonic patience . |
| 7 | Subjects who secreted gastric acid in response to stimulation with a sham feed showed a fall in urine acid output >0.5 mmol H + /mmol creatinine . |
| 8 | Poising acrobatically upon one leg then the other , Meh'Lindi proceeded to spray her body from toe to neck with black synthetic skin . |
| 9 | Take a suitably sized plastic beach ball , cutaway for the face from nape of neck to forehead with nice curvy lines , and carefully estimate where the fluffy ears will have to project and trim the earholes tight . |
| 10 | Third , debasement of early medieval coinage in western Europe and the eventual replacement of gold by silver can be attributed to the cessation of the flow of gold bullion from east to west with the abandonment of gold subsidies paid by the Byzantine empire to the barbarians in the west . |
| 11 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 12 | The film charts her transformation from soulmate to psychopath with relentless logic and a fine eye for creepiness and is only let down by its over-the-top climax . |
| 13 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 14 | Its membership and its political weight varied of course from time to time with the personality of the monarch and with changing circumstances . |
| 15 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 16 | At the same time he supposedly played really well in these matches and got an offer from Juve to stay with them for a few weeks this winter . |
| 17 | He first requested leave of absence from court to stay with the dying earl at Wilton , in order to prevent him from giving his inheritance elsewhere . |
| 18 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 19 | She took bits of chicken to bed with her and fell asleep while still chewing . |
| 20 | Bass , tenor , alto and soprano ; the words seemed to glide up and down the scale from moment to moment with no consistency . |
| 21 | Away from the laboratory has a wide variety of interests from aerobics to performing with a number of local theatrical groups . |
| 22 | Among these also stood the men of Angus , deserted by Kineth , with Malpedar from Moray to work with their own leaders and the presence of the Moray men to stiffen them . |
| 23 | As the prevalence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has risen so the risk of exposure to HIV-1 with each unsafe sexual encounter will have increased . |
| 24 | It could almost have been dead already : a passive progression from birth to death with no awareness of life at all . |
| 25 | Certainly Gen McCreery wanted specific authorization from AFHQ to deal with these Croats in precisely the terms which Robertson 's order gave him . |
| 26 | There are no rough edges : the three men and three women drift from solo to duet to ensemble with seamless ease . |
| 27 | Such clichés fill her first speech of welcome to Wilekin with a set of offers that for the reader and writer are ironically naive in the context of which we are aware : ( " If you like , come and sit , and what your will is , let me know , my dear life . |
| 28 | I remember going to Government House with Pop to lunch with the Wavells who had divided their house for wounded and men on leave , and had heard of our soldiers in Maymyo and in Poona . |
| 29 | North Korea thus possessed a line of airfields from coast to coast with four close to the 38th parallel . |