Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After killing it with the knife he dressed quickly . |
| 2 | By the time he came to work with Lawford , Sinatra 's reputation for roughing it with the press was already growing . |
| 3 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 4 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 5 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |
| 6 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 7 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 8 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 9 | It was sensitive stuff and he had no intention of discussing it with the Bristol media . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 11 | Again , many thanks for providing me with the opportunity to meet the Committee , it was very helpful . |
| 12 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 13 | She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship . |
| 14 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 15 | He goes on to say ‘ In presenting us with the award for Lafayette , the judges believe that the new range has outstanding sales potential . |
| 16 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 17 | Baxter used to delight in taunting him with the nickname ‘ Oor Wullie ’ and in his biography described Allen as ‘ a pillar of the church , a model of rectitude and , not to labour the point , a pompous pain in the neck . ’ |
| 18 | A friend of Apollinaire , Soffici was possibly the only man in Italy at the time with a clear idea of Cubism and its aims , and in contrasting it with the work of the young Futurists no doubt felt that his strictures were justified . |
| 19 | How about combining it with the use of more than one colour , or racking , or by using alternative needle selection on the front bed with slip or tuck . |
| 20 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 21 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 22 | Steadman , who had been doubtful to play , admitted he was ‘ naive ’ to take the medicine without clearing it with the tour doctor . |
| 23 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 24 | As well as a means of ensuring that interoperability and compatibility between different vendors ' Tuxedo-based products , USL wants the club to clearly identify these products by stamping them with the Tuxedo brand . |
| 25 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 26 | Commands are chosen from an onscreen menu by touching them with the tip of the pointer and executed by pressing one or both of the buttons . |
| 27 | The Doctor was standing on his head and juggling the balls by knocking them with the soles of his feet whilst gargling ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ . |
| 28 | You may sometimes wish to shorten the end of the previous shot by over-recording it with the beginning of the next one . |
| 29 | Many fish , squid , octopuses , comb-jellies and jellyfish ensure that the abyssal depths are never completely dark by filling them with the sparkle and shimmer of animal light . |
| 30 | Anticipate the hose-pipe bans and make the most of a sunny border , says Nigel Colborn , by filling it with the kind of plants that thrive on heat and dust |