Example sentences of "with [pron] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what it is with me and my left foot … |
| 2 | The hard copy formatter works cyclically through the modules , searching for those with the specified charge code and classification and filling the relevant volume with them until its minimum fill mark is reached . |
| 3 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 4 | On Aug. 21 Syed Shahabuddin , the Lok Sabha member for the Janata Party , formed a new party , with himself as its sole MP , called the Insaf ( Justice ) Party . |
| 5 | ‘ A person involved in the occult is totally preoccupied with himself and his own desires . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you something , Dr. Briant , I do n't know why I put up with you and your arrogant ways , that I do n't ! |
| 7 | If , on the other hand , your elderly parent shows a quite uncharacteristic withdrawal from her normal concern for you and for others and is totally obsessed in an agitated fashion with herself and her own troubles , over a long period , you should begin to wonder if , in fact , she is suffering from a true depressive illness and may be in need of medical help . |
| 8 | Each primary nurse will ‘ negotiate ’ the need for resources by liaising with her or his immediate manager , utilising available assessment tools such as Waterlow scores and pain charts to support any requests for equipment . |
| 9 | It was a lucky thing , for she spoke French and I spent the rest of the day with her and her two friends , Lena and Maria . |
| 10 | Sinead has never used coy sexuality to sell herself — maybe that 's why the boys and the blusterers feel so uncomfortable with her and her volatile emotions . |
| 11 | Ferrier hit Miss Brady in his mother 's home in Blackburn , West Lothian , and then twice in the house he shared with her and their two children at Mosside Drive , Blackburn . |
| 12 | Got on better with him than my own parents , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 13 | But why he seems to think we should want to have anything to do with him and his fancy talk — that 's more than I can imagine . |
| 14 | Bobby Hunt is certain that some of Minton 's erotic drawings were either given or sold to the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , Carl Winter , who occasionally invited Minton to stay with him and his Burmese boyfriend in Cambridge . |
| 15 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 16 | ‘ I could be getting very fed up with him and his little ways . |
| 17 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 18 | A business general manager who moves up to corporate responsibilities can quickly lose touch with his or her former industry . |
| 19 | Symbol is part of the language of drama : " The way in which the teacher draws attention to the symbol ( gesture , word , object etc. ) generates a collective meaning and also gives time and opportunity for the participant to endow that symbol with his or her individual meaning . " |
| 20 | This time is supported by the new manager formally meeting with his or her general manager on a weekly basis to discuss their progress . |
| 21 | In fact , one of the major drawbacks with signature models is that the buyer unwittingly inherits all of the idiosyncrasies of the original player 's design and , in a few instances , these could prove to be incompatible with his or her own style of playing . |
| 22 | While it is recognised that the professor will probably wish to give lectures and classes in areas connected with his or her own field of research , he or she will be expected to cover a somewhat wider range of topics , as required by undergraduate and graduate courses in Roman Archaeology . |
| 23 | The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level . |
| 24 | Support may help a bereaved parent to cope with his or her own feelings of loss , and thereby be better able to recognise their children 's needs and vulnerability . |
| 25 | Besides , does not the practice of carving up the syllabus and letting each lecturer get on with his or her own bit not lead to overlaps , duplication , lacunae and untied threads ? |
| 26 | In some cases , however , the symptoms are a vital element in the way the patient deals with the world and with his or her own conflicts about life and relationships . |
| 27 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 28 | They make particularly good presents for people in flats , for elderly or housebound relatives , or for a child with his or her own bedroom and an interest in wildlife that needs fostering . |
| 29 | It is … clear that for both Nozick and Rawls a society is composed of individuals , each with his or her own interest , who then come together and formulate common rules of life . |
| 30 | For technically complicated products , selling is sometimes performed by a sales team , with each member of the team working with his or her opposite number in the buying team , e.g. a sales engineer works with engineers in the buying company . |