Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 2 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 3 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 4 | The tied-up human went to sleep after a while , and snored like someone sawing a thick log with a thin saw . |
| 5 | This is of course what I did — rather than repeat exactly experiments done on mice or rats that other researchers had already reported , I asked what would happen if I tried a similar procedure with my chicks . |
| 6 | At Bishop McGregor School I found a similar picture with men outnumbering women as shown in Table 6.3 . |
| 7 | In addition , I have put the matter on the agenda for the Ministers of the Interior of our partners in Europe , because I want a European standard with tighter security applying to all cars made in Europe and sold in this country . |
| 8 | At LimoRent on Third Avenue I hired a six-door Jefferson with cocktail bar , TV and telephone . |
| 9 | I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all . |
| 10 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 11 | Maintenance : I run a two-week rota with 20% of the water being changed for rainwater and boiled tap water , brought to roughly the same temperature as that within the aquariums . |
| 12 | I enjoy a fantastic relationship with my boyfriend and I 'm certainly not a lesbian . |
| 13 | Sid was a handsome and debonair charmer and I enjoyed a happy relationship with his family including his father , mother and grandmother . |
| 14 | I get a good discount with er Renault Peugeot . |
| 15 | I improvised a social worker with the GCSE drama lot : I was good . |
| 16 | I developed a lovely friendship with a woman co-worker named Yawadee , who everyone calls ‘ Dang ’ which means ‘ red ’ in Thai . |
| 17 | I spent a wonderful afternoon with some women pensioners in Barnsley . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 19 | I remember a drunken coversation with him along the lines of you ca n't call a cat Lukic it has to be Bonetti . |
| 20 | ‘ Not long after this , I landed a senior position with a large company . |
| 21 | Er , before I ring off can I have a quick word with Cedric please — if he 's there ? |
| 22 | It was through my convictions that I established a firm friendship with the late Sir Hugh Fraser , and an unexpectedly harmonious relationship with Auberon Waugh and members of his Private Eye banditry : a relationship which , as I have said , strangely has remained unaffected despite my own less than friendly exchanges with that periodical . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 25 | Once I watched a whole movie with the wrong soundtrack . |
| 26 | ‘ I feel a strong affinity with him , almost a brotherly thing . |
| 27 | That took care of the main outline planting , but at the shady end of the garden I started a fragrant corner with Daphne odora , the deliciously scented , white-flowered Osmanthus delavayi and that trusty bloomer Mahonia japonica . |
| 28 | I 'm the boss , and I pay a keen man with a brain and conscience to do the grafting . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I felt a kindred spirit with our German sisters , letters were exchanged and interest began to grow , ’ said Sister Bernadette from the Darlington convent , in Carmel Road . |
| 30 | I lodged a formal complaint with Archie Hamilton — Minister for the Armed Forces , who is visiting Britain 's Gurkha soldiers in Nepal — and with the British Consul , Andrew Hall . |