Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 4 | I do n't think he was quite so committed to your sister as she wanted us to believe , and , talking of that lady , how dare you leave me to cope with an hysterical female on my own ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I mean with a high bird , ’ he amended . |
| 6 | I mean with a medical certificate . ’ |
| 7 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 8 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 9 | I was n't positive on this one , so I checked with a leading manufacturer who said it was not wise to mix , as the addition of stain could upset the drying time . |
| 10 | My brother and I behaved with an immune princeliness that was galling . |
| 11 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 12 | But I relax with a good book whenever possible . |
| 13 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 14 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 15 | There was a chap there I danced with a great deal . |
| 16 | It will be a new experience for both Wanderers and ourselves to play with a knitted football . |
| 17 | I was so overjoyed with the diagnosis that I celebrated with a huge meal , a bottle of champagne and a large cigar . |
| 18 | ‘ If it 's as big as your mouth , you 're on , ’ I replied with a cool nonchalance that belonged to someone else ( that was me , you fool ! ) . |
| 19 | ‘ You see , ’ he continued , smiling unpleasantly , ‘ I travel with a young man , a friend of mine , who roasts boys ' hearts and eats them . |
| 20 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 21 | I did n't begin here , with you and Dad , I began with an unknown woman called Elaine , a girl really , and a father who is n't in New Zealand after all , but who might be in the next street , the next house . |
| 22 | May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour . |
| 23 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 24 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 25 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 26 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 28 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 29 | ‘ I started with a whole lot of ideas and a plan . |
| 30 | Last Sunday I talked with a white farmer whose land is in what Rhodesians call ‘ the sharp end ’ , where the fighting is . |