Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 3 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 4 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 5 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 6 | picture the opponent standing in front of you with the left leg and fist leading . |
| 7 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 8 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
| 9 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 10 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |
| 11 | With some trepidation I went with him with the trusty Seagull Outboard chugging manfully over the huge swell . |
| 12 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 13 | Thus you shall never hear of Michael Heseltine 's desire to drive a blood-red Grand Prix car , scattering Mansells and Sennas before him with the sublime panache of Mr Toad . |
| 14 | It had almost lulled her mind to blankness when she felt fitzAlan 's arms close tightly about her with the utmost care , bringing her nearer to the warmth of his body . |
| 15 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 16 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 17 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 18 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 19 | ‘ It was sent to you with the other orders . ’ |
| 20 | This catalogue is being sent to you with the current issue of WWF News . |
| 21 | Please complete the questionnaire and the address and job title details form that is sent to you with the annual subscription and fees notice , 1993 , by the members ' registrar . |
| 22 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 23 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 24 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 25 | Rolled passes do not impress the purists , or stop the opposition , but Gloucester were slow to see the threat of Swift coming across field and when Guscott took Barnes ' pass , Swift appeared outside him with the powerful Fallon overlapping on his left . |
| 26 | Partly in recompense for disbanding Wilson 's Drama Department , Newman gave the assignment to him with the expressed intention of fostering a year-round drama serial suitable for all age groups : the drive for class — indivisible Television to cross all boundaries and backgrounds . |
| 27 | Emotion seemed to gush out of her eyes , nose , mouth , as she sighed , wept , mumbled between kisses , covering his face with spit , tears , lipstick and rain , clinging to him with the frantic strength of a drowning swimmer . |
| 28 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 29 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 30 | ‘ He should have a doctor , ’ said Paviour anxiously , standing over him with the empty brandy glass . |