Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 3 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 4 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 5 | picture the opponent standing in front of you with the left leg and fist leading . |
| 6 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 7 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
| 8 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 9 | With some trepidation I went with him with the trusty Seagull Outboard chugging manfully over the huge swell . |
| 10 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 11 | Thus you shall never hear of Michael Heseltine 's desire to drive a blood-red Grand Prix car , scattering Mansells and Sennas before him with the sublime panache of Mr Toad . |
| 12 | It had almost lulled her mind to blankness when she felt fitzAlan 's arms close tightly about her with the utmost care , bringing her nearer to the warmth of his body . |
| 13 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 14 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 15 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 16 | ‘ It was sent to you with the other orders . ’ |
| 17 | This catalogue is being sent to you with the current issue of WWF News . |
| 18 | Please complete the questionnaire and the address and job title details form that is sent to you with the annual subscription and fees notice , 1993 , by the members ' registrar . |
| 19 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 20 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 21 | Rolled passes do not impress the purists , or stop the opposition , but Gloucester were slow to see the threat of Swift coming across field and when Guscott took Barnes ' pass , Swift appeared outside him with the powerful Fallon overlapping on his left . |
| 22 | Partly in recompense for disbanding Wilson 's Drama Department , Newman gave the assignment to him with the expressed intention of fostering a year-round drama serial suitable for all age groups : the drive for class — indivisible Television to cross all boundaries and backgrounds . |
| 23 | Emotion seemed to gush out of her eyes , nose , mouth , as she sighed , wept , mumbled between kisses , covering his face with spit , tears , lipstick and rain , clinging to him with the frantic strength of a drowning swimmer . |
| 24 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 25 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 26 | ‘ He should have a doctor , ’ said Paviour anxiously , standing over him with the empty brandy glass . |
| 27 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 28 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 29 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 30 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |