Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 2 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
| 3 | There were gags , spoofs , send-ups , dumbshows , knockabout , culminating in the Rev Bain constructing an absurdly slack and springy tightrope across the ring and managing to cross it with the help of ( groan ) a cross at either end . |
| 4 | Although Gilgamesh failed in his attempt to be a true god , the other gods took pity on his situation and appeared to comfort him with the news that he would live honoured forever as a shadow in the Underworld . |
| 5 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |