Example sentences of "take with [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The second surgeon climbed , taking with him a miniature camera . |
2 | Mr MacSharry collected his reward , the EC commissionership , and departed for Brussels , taking with him a big reputation . |
3 | I used to believe in the Protestant work ethic , in the virtue of a regular twelve-hour working day , deluding myself that this was the only way to achieve excellent business results , kidding myself that I actually enjoyed going home exhausted on Friday evening , taking with me a whole bundle of weekend paperwork . |
4 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
5 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
6 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
7 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
8 | He took with him a full train of siege artillery with sappers and engineers . |
9 | Although she appears to have taken with her no significant quantity of clothing nor any substantial sum of money it seems certain that she was carrying her passport … |
10 | Finally , take with you a spare copy of the ‘ particulars , from the estate agent , to check his details line by line , measure by measure , as these are nearly always inaccurate or incomplete . |
11 | Take with you a few park-type finds , plus some examples of the dangerous junk we dispose of safely . |
12 | Take with you a fresh shoot from the same kind of plant which has no aphids on it . |
13 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |