Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 2 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 3 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 4 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 5 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 6 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 7 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 8 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 9 | ‘ They seem to have brought with them a complete breakdown in the moral order . |
| 10 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 11 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 12 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 13 | Each brother brought with him a full retinue of staff – – artisans , labourers , shoemakers and so on – – in fact all the elements of the Hindu caste system . |
| 14 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 15 | What is more , the cultivation of the idea of emperorship brought with it a renewed interest in the rich sources of the Roman law . |
| 16 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 17 | The shift of focus from the individual text to literature in general brought with it a new awareness of the different nature of different types of discourse about literature , and of the different ways of treating literature implied by them . |
| 18 | The method of composition used by the painters brought with it a new element of ease and fluidity . |
| 19 | Roy Porter maintains , however , that in the eighteenth century the growth of fashion brought with it a new standard of beauty which emphasized the artificial , so that many Georgians feared a civilization of facades . |
| 20 | In a way the actual liquidation brought with it a curious sense of relief . |
| 21 | For the purposes of this chapter , this question of chronology makes only one difference , and that is in assessing how long the two separate procedural regimes lasted ; how long therefore the use of a trust brought with it a distinct advantage compared with the use of a modal legacy . |
| 22 | Increased life expectancy has brought with it a major burden ( the word is here used advisedly ) and responsibility in the care of those in an advanced state of mental and physical decline . |
| 23 | A chink of light from behind the thick curtain told him that it was morning , and the prospect brought with it a deep sense of foreboding . |
| 24 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 25 | England 's involvement in European warfare after 1689 brought with it a massive expansion of the work of government , as more and more men had to be employed by the executive to meet the demands of war — in the Treasury office , and its dependent bodies the Customs , Excise , Mint and Tax Office , in the Army and Navy , and in the diplomatic service . |
| 26 | The LRT method of shaking off destructive beliefs about ourselves brought with it an astonishing sense of joy . |
| 27 | Legislation in 1988 brought with it the central government decision to abolish the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) by 1990 , despite the opposition of 93 per cent of parents in Inner London . |
| 28 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 29 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 30 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |