Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But if the police or the security services are perpetrating the illegal acts there may be little incentive for them to deal with such complaints seriously . |
2 | It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues . |
3 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
4 | Most of them come with explanatory booklets detailing the words and commands the computer understands , and include a description of each cave or room that Samson might enter . |
5 | ‘ Ah , Château Margaux ‘ 48 , ’ one of them exclaimed with great excitement . |
6 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
7 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
8 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
9 | It said villagers were forming detachments , many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives . |
10 | He seemed to be split into three clear elements , all of them aching with good intent and a longing to sound some clarion call not to hold back . |
11 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
12 | Going into the big general waiting room , Daisy no longer noticed the many photographs of grateful animals and their owners which decorated the walls , most of them signed with fulsome messages indicating every degree of gratitude . |
13 | The countryside lives in fear of dacoits , many of them armed with automatic weapons left behind by the Japs . |
14 | ‘ When we were married , I never thought of you sleeping with other women . |
15 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
16 | She saw the crystal in front of him flicker with pale lights , and guessed that to him it was no pallid , ice-sheathed glimmer . |
17 | I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned . |
18 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
19 | The fact that many of us start with one playback system housed in a special " video room " encourages the analogy with the language laboratory — and we do n't usually think of installing a second language laboratory unless it 's a very big institute . |
20 | I know many of us agree with these sentiments and perhaps envy Terry for getting out now . |
21 | Again , if it becomes too difficult for you to deal with this problem alone , there are readily-available college counselling services . |
22 | ‘ If you think a Rottweiler is going to attack you , it 's no good staring at it like you do with other dogs . |
23 | You do n't have to get inside it and keep adjusting and adjusting it like you do with some others . |
24 | It was not like her to flirt with married Englishmen . |
25 | A 16-year-old youth with him escaped with minor injuries . |
26 | Lord Denning and the few colleagues agreeing with him met with little success in either case . |
27 | Tip the fruits into a sieve ( save the juices that drain from them to whip with thick cream to serve with the Bakewell ) and mix them with the flaked almonds . |
28 | The whisky in him fought with any consideration he might have had for her ; all he wanted was to get her into bed . |
29 | The debate resumed on 18 November , when the Cabinet had two more papers before it dealing with capital punishment and the role of government . |
30 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |