Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be inclined to house the mower elsewhere , or replace it with an electric one . |
| 2 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 3 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
| 4 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 5 | If you are a film star and smoke a particular brand of cigar or douse yourself with an exotic perfume then you would be a prime candidate to appear in adverts endorsing these products . |
| 6 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 7 | A pair of racing shoes could lift your performance or leave you with an appealing but unnecessary extravagance . |
| 8 | or mark them with the black , persistent crows |
| 9 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 10 | She is sharply aware of changing social patterns , but neither resents them , like the portraits on the wall , nor approves them with an automatic word like ‘ progress ’ . |
| 11 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 12 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 13 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 14 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 15 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 16 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 17 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 18 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 19 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 20 | Coarsely chop the chicken and combine it with the soy sauces , rice wine or sherry , salt , sesame oil and cornflour . |
| 21 | I would like to take each tent by the comer and pull it down , and I would untether all the neat horses and the sleek , brushed bulls and send them with a huge cry into all the hills . |
| 22 | You will either get the four nos of the Synopsis from the work room drawing portfolio , in Government House and send them with the larger copy . |
| 23 | Complete Form 15 ( from your law stationer ) and send it with the appropriate fee , to The Registrar , Central Land Charges Registry , Burrington Way , Plymouth . |
| 24 | P35 — At the end of the financial year the employer has to complete this return and send it with the completed P11 's to the Collector of Taxes . |
| 25 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 26 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 27 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 29 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
| 30 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |