Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 2 | I do n't think many people ever realized that his biggest hero of all time was Flynn [ with whom Howard worked in The Roots of Heaven in 1958 ] . |
| 3 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 4 | I grab the butt , with my fingers curled around the reel seating , and strike . |
| 5 | I sit with my arms wrapped around the chrome railing and my bare heels gripping the sides . |
| 6 | I 'm left staring at it with my adrenalin draining into the floorboards , and though I wish she 'd let me take them I find I 'm getting bored . |
| 7 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
| 8 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 9 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 10 | With my feet frozen to the floor , I followed the red lights in the sky until they both disappeared and the two loud bangs which followed signified that they too had come down heavily somewhere . |
| 11 | Kneeling , with my head bent over the lavatory , it was some time before I realised this sickness was not a thing I could throw up . |
| 12 | With my head bent over the sink I had plenty of time to work out my options . |
| 13 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 14 | we went to Ascot with my dad standing at the bar all day , we watched |
| 15 | As I stood with my hands resting on the stone of the bridge , the door of the hotel was again thrown open . |
| 16 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 17 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 18 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 19 | In order to progress the working up of your requirements , please liaise with my colleague identified in the enclosure . |
| 20 | But as I sat with my legs dangling over the edge , looking out on to the quiet water meadow , the anarchy of Delhi seemed far away and I began to see why in all the most sensible cultures , Paradise was envisaged as a walled pleasure garden . |
| 21 | With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station . |
| 22 | They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point . |
| 23 | The ease with which Burman moves between the multifarious and diverse femininities of Asian and western cultures , challenges the notion of the Asian woman ‘ caught between two cultures ’ . |
| 24 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 25 | The efficiency with which fluids pass through the rocks depends heavily on the interconnections , the spaces available in the pore throats and the sorting of the sediment . |
| 26 | The urgency which imbued the comings and goings of the party men and , particularly , the rapidity with which Franco acted in the week following the San Sebastian meetings , certainly suggest that there existed a serious potential threat to the latter 's military and political plans , emanating from the political sectors of his own camp . |
| 27 | The Arab girl rolled on to her back to balance on her shoulders , her legs spread wide with her feet pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 28 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 29 | Ward opened up the paper to reveal two tiny clay figures interlocked , the woman with her head bent over the man 's huge phallic erection . |
| 30 | She lay with her head resting on the inside of his thigh , and held his limp prick loosely between her tired lips . |