Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 2 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 3 | There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ Would Madame honour me with her company for a small libation ? ’ he roared on the staircase . |
| 5 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 6 | She bumped into Charlie later on , as she was heading out with her list for the coffee-shop order . |
| 7 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 8 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |
| 9 | His style stemmed from that of Jan van Scorel , using a strong three-dimensional rendering of the features , modified by late Holbein with its concern for a dazzling and exact record of magnificent dress and jewels . |
| 10 | At the moment the entire European production of MTBE is around 500000 tonnes per year , though this will double if a company called Highland Hydrocarbon decides to go ahead with its plan for a new plant making MTBE from North Sea gas at Nigg Bay in Scotland . |
| 11 | First there was Sir David Calcutt 's report , with its call for a statutory complaints mechanism to curb press excesses . |
| 12 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 13 | Such an involvement , with its need for a clear and sensible understanding , may begin when screening tests reveal that the child a woman is carrying may be handicapped . |
| 14 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 15 | for ignoring to work parents need to learn how to avoid all contact with their child for a short period but remain completely calm and uninterested . |
| 16 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |
| 17 | For the politicians , and for those in charge of broadcasting , the problem was how to reconcile the need for accountability on the part of the broadcasters with their need for a maximum degree of autonomy so as to be able to carry out their work without undue political or other constraints . |
| 18 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 19 | Cos Grant 's gone off to play with his computer for a few minutes . |
| 20 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 21 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 22 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 23 | After an initial two nights in the sleep laboratory in which it was confirmed that he was continuously awake , he returned with his wife for a five-night stay . |
| 24 | Amer Midani , United 's second largest shareholder , had apparently annoyed Edwards last weekend by with his call for the public flotation of the shares . |
| 25 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 26 | Then Goodman scored a soft goal with his head for a free kick near the corner flag . |
| 27 | Fusil had been worried that the two local teams would walk away with his event for a second year in succession , but he had his hopes firmly pinned on the ultra-fit , para-military French police team , GIGN , to uphold French honours . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's that crackpot Mark Lemon with his idea for a comic magazine . |
| 29 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |