Example sentences of "with [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 2 | Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) . |
| 3 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
| 4 | In the long opening mime section Bocca 's graceful arrogance was eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to meet Nikiya ( Viviana Durante ) , and once dancing with her the two qualities sparked into a heady ardour . |
| 5 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
| 6 | Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation . |
| 8 | The original metre is lost , of course , and with it the lovely lilting pauses at mid-line in the hexameter , and the " rest " at the end of the trimeter ; but still the English quatrain scheme answers generally ( there is one exception ) to the patterning of the Horatian strophe into distich and answering distich . |
| 9 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |