Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 2 | As the room scheme in our main picture is based around a solid wooden table , it seems a shame to cover it with a tablecloth . |
| 3 | If you would like a business to help you with a charity appeal , the ‘ carrot ’ of good publicity may get them to do so . |
| 4 | Ask a friend to help you with the difficult to reach areas . |
| 5 | Shortly after moving into The Kilns , Minto had engaged a gardener to help her with the eight acres of ground . |
| 6 | ‘ How did you get on today — have you found a nanny to help you with the children ? ’ he added , throwing her into confusion by casually giving her a peck on the cheek before leaning across the table and helping himself to a slice of chocolate cake . |
| 7 | Quotes of £37 17s 8d. for the bike shed and £145 15s 0d. for a veranda extension were both thought too expensive , but as the bike shed was Minuted as being urgently needed , the next meeting ( three months later ) appointed a sub-committee to consider it with the constraint not to spend more than £15 ! |
| 8 | A further £265,000 will be invested in a fund to provide her with a tax-free , inflation-proof income for life . |
| 9 | Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house . |
| 10 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 11 | Classification of the pixels forming a Landsat MSS or TM image means giving each pixel a label to associate it with a land-cover class such as ‘ wheat ’ , ‘ forest ’ or ‘ sandy desert ’ . |