Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 2 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 3 | In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 5 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 6 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 7 | The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge . |
| 8 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 9 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 10 | It looks almost like a cluster , and I have known unwary observers to confuse it with the Pleiades . |
| 11 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 12 | This does not tackle head on the various problems of priority raised above , but the principle of minimum coverage seems a very good starting point for a public librarian , allowing value judgements to concern themselves with the degree of provision attempted within the overall coverage . |
| 13 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 14 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 15 | He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata . |
| 16 | A new treatment of volumes required , naturally , the invention or formulation of new techniques to reconcile it with the demands of the flat picture surface . |
| 17 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 18 | ‘ We specialised in many happy social events in addition to tennis , ’ says Harold , who would like former members to contact him with a view to holding a reunion . |
| 19 | She yanked her seatbelt free then gave a squeak of protest as Penry pulled her into his arms to kiss her with a ferocity she fought against at first . |
| 20 | What has also developed is a kind of unofficial contest between himself and Warren Beatty which is all about women , i.e. , their famous conquests and their alleged insatiable quests to make it with the world 's most attractive women , or some alluring beauty either may have encountered in a bar or restaurant . |
| 21 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack . |
| 22 | In disregard of this fact , Winans engaged in a scheme with certain Wall Street financiers to provide them with the contents of the column prior to its publication . |
| 23 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 24 | Though it is too early for beginners to concern themselves with the relationship between musical forms and mathematics , the often surprising exactness in the relative proportions of musical sections , and even between movements , may be mentioned here . |
| 25 | Outlining the prosecution case , John Burgess said police had found evidence at the home of Richard Duriez following the incidents … documents to connect him with the Churchill , a copy of the ALF video and press release . |
| 26 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 27 | I have been asked by Messrs Grant Thornton , our financial advisors , to write to Parish Priests to provide you with the information regarding Pay As You Earn regulations . |
| 28 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 29 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 30 | The industrial relations problems of the docks in the 1950s and 1960s could , in the eyes of many commentators , be ascribed to the institution of casual working and the ( ultimately successful ) attempts by the trade unions to replace it with a system of regular employment for dock labourers ( see Wilson , 1972 ) . |