Example sentences of "with [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When he first came to live with me he showed some envy of his young brother Graham 's success as a soprano in the local eisteddfodau , the Welsh competitive festivals .
2 When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food .
3 A rough-hewn psychological explanation would hold that , because many second generation Caribbeans and Africans in the UK are raised in single-parent families , in almost every case the parent being the mother , the children pass into an emotional void at the ages of 13 or 14 and seek out father figures in the shape of sports coaches with whom they form compensatory attachments .
4 Wicca followers , like the Canaanites , visualise their gods as images of animals or horned gods , thus breaking the second commandment of the group with whom they seek closer ties ( Exodus 20:4 ) .
5 Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century .
6 The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections .
7 On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled !
8 The presentation took place in the showroom where she also received a Caithness Crystal glass vase given by her friends in the factory and warehouse with whom she had close links for many years .
9 Then she married and divorced top conductor Andre Previn with whom she had three sons — and adopted Soon-Yi .
10 A ‘ social contact ’ here is any individual , not a residential member of the housewife 's family , with whom she experiences social interaction .
11 He took most of the responsibility for the selection and training of staff , with whom he enjoyed good relations , and was an excellent host , with a particular knowledge of French wines .
12 Business acquaintances , you would call them , the ones with whom he spent last week . ’
13 He was a friend of such antiquaries as Sir Robert Cotton ( with whom he swapped medieval manuscripts and from whose collection he copied extracts ) , Sir Simonds D'Ewes , and Sir William Dugdale [ qq.v. ] ( who in his History of Warwickshire , 1730 edition , p. 913 , thanked him as ‘ a gentleman of great knowledge in Antiquities and a special furtherer of this worke ’ ) .
14 He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art .
15 At the age of twenty-one he joined his father 's lace business , and in the following year ( 1881 ) he married Annie Maria Winlaw , the daughter of a baker , with whom he had four daughters and three sons .
16 He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact .
17 Looking at Doyle , with whom he found more sympathy .
18 Reilly 's last competitive game was against Donegal in the league this season , but he still plays club football with Kingscourt with whom he won seven cham
19 My touching faith in the Chancellor 's resolve and commitment to anti-inflation policy was ridiculed by those with whom I had this discussion , who were obviously much more deeply cynical than I am .
20 I 'm just … well , I meet someone like you with whom I feel instant affinity , to whom I 'm instantly attracted and …
21 The dog , as might be expected , looks in both directions — towards the grave , whose total incapacity to understand rights it shares , yet also towards the human being with whom it has appetitive instincts in common .
22 Languages vary tremendously in the type of conjunctions they prefer to use as well as the frequency with which they use such items .
23 Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy .
24 Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures .
25 In exchange for exports of grain they received money with which they purchased manufactured goods and luxury items .
26 They are not aware of all such emissions , however , from all plants and other creatures — just those with which they have close ties .
27 They found that there were no significant differences between the signs in the frequency with which they elicited some speed change from the driver ( in the Johansson and Rumar study there were very considerable differences in memory performance depending on the sign used ) , although the degree of this change was related to the information on the sign .
28 The lion part of their names comes from the ferocity with which they attack any ant that comes within range of their huge jaws .
29 To quote Rothstein again , Realism became ‘ the doctrine which provided the intellectual frame of reference for the foreign policy establishment for something like twenty years … it did determine the categories by which they assessed the external world and the state of mind with which they approached prevailing problems ’ .
30 Together they successfully masterminded the acquisition and distribution of British and American hard currency , with which they bought Croatian fodder to feed the Swiss cows donated to Austria which then provided free milk .
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