Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 2 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 3 | I 'd stayed with the Puseys several times , and knew my way about the flat . |
| 4 | I enjoyed working with the children . |
| 5 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |
| 6 | The days following our visit to Johanna were full of frenetic busyness : Benjamin had to pack our belongings , I had to sell a cup ( I 'd stolen this from Wolsey ) and draw what money I had deposited with the goldsmiths . |
| 7 | Once the semantics of police experience were revealed , I had to live with the problems experienced by both Castenada and Favret-Saada , although I demur from casting myself into their intellectual companionship . |
| 8 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 9 | And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory … |
| 10 | It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire . |
| 11 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 12 | During and after World War I , she became associated with the Friends ' War Victims Relief Committee . |
| 13 | and again rose , the pastor taking the cup and speaking the chosen words , whilst those who served went with the cups among the congregation … |
| 14 | A steady stream of steam-laden air gushed out from the kitchen and Carrie frequently ran the back of her hand across her hot forehead as she struggled to cope with the customers ' demands . |
| 15 | And you took to do with the things that was happening in the Cooperative . |
| 16 | The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack 's way . |
| 17 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 18 | I said , like the child who had played with the dolls and bears , ‘ Syl would bring me breakfast in bed , only his mother would n't let him . ’ |
| 19 | Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales . |
| 20 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 21 | She could see the Beastline overlords who had sat with the Wolfkings at Tara ; proud and noble and dignified , and just very slightly cruel , but charming and strong as well , and utterly loyal to the High King . |
| 22 | Some normalization of the security situation in Knin began on Aug. 21 , although only after a demonstration by several thousand residents had secured an undertaking from the local police chief that no disciplinary action would be taken against policemen who had sided with the insurgents . |
| 23 | She told Princesse Mathilde that she wanted to find the son of her old friend Andrzej Potacki , yes , yes , the Andrzej who had died with the partisans after the war . |
| 24 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 25 | But Dierdriu only smiled at him , and Fergus saw that it was the cruel , charming smile of her ancestors , who had lain with the wolves . |
| 26 | But erm happily erm we managed to deal with the matters primarily because management agreed that we would have a meeting on a Monday and a meeting on a Thursday , both held in the afternoon , in the last hour of the working day . |
| 27 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
| 28 | When we had finished with the geese , we moved onshore to film marmots , and also another mountain rodent , the pika . |
| 29 | Because we had finished with the hens then you see , and they used to sell the hens for about two shillings or something like that you know . |
| 30 | In those circumstances the plaintiffs were entitled to obtain possession of the premises unless they failed to comply with the terms of s.146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |