Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 2 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 3 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 4 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 5 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 6 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 7 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 8 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 9 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 10 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 11 | Preston stopped her without much trouble with his one good arm . |
| 12 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 13 | Recently the junior staff at Southmead Hospital in Bristol found themselves in bitter dispute with the hospital management over the terms and conditions of their employment . |
| 14 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 15 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 16 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |
| 17 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 18 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 19 | Their resentment at Gloucester 's insertion into the area manifested itself in open rivalry with the duke and early in 1470 Edward was obliged to intervene in the quarrel . |
| 20 | Their resentment at Gloucester 's insertion into the area manifested itself in open rivalry with the duke and early in 1470 Edward was obliged to intervene in the quarrel . |
| 21 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 22 | C. T. threw himself into Christian activity with the same discipline and dedication he had given to cricket , and determined to join another well-known Cambridge athlete , Stanley Smith the oarsman , in the then little-known China Inland Mission led by J. Hudson Taylor [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | The emerging Labour movement also threw itself into local politics with enthusiasm . |
| 24 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 25 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 26 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 27 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 28 | This brought them into hostile contact with some of their neighbours , especially with the counts of Armagnac . |
| 29 | They were also in the business of wiring installations for consumers ( in houses , factories , schools , offices , shops ) beyond the mains terminals , and this brought them into direct competition with the 7500 , usually small , independent electrical contractors . |
| 30 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |