Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 3 | Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand . |
| 4 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 6 | Staggered strikes failed to meet with a response and the Ministry of Education , rather than negotiate , chose to end the school year a month early . |
| 7 | We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us . |
| 8 | On 14 September 1982 Gemayel planned to meet with a group of Mossad officers , but was killed when a bomb planted by Syrian intelligence exploded in the local Phalangist party offices where he was speaking . |
| 9 | The negotiations on British entry became fused with a wider debate in 1960–3 about the future of the Community . |
| 10 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 11 | Since 1601 there had been a system of parochial poor relief designed to cope with a small residue of the aged and unfortunate , financed by occasional and relatively infrequent rates on the principal landowners , and given sometimes in cash , frequently in kind . |
| 12 | To be truly effective a system needs to be designed to cope with a wide range of inputs . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 14 | I rose to preach with a jolly remark about there being an official opposition , ‘ but perhaps it will be going for a walk in a little while ’ . |
| 15 | The South African has withdrawn with a hamstring injury from the side to play Australia at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 16 | In place of the easy verities of a year and a half ago , America now has to cope with a Europe — both east and west — in a state of flux . |
| 17 | In light-water reactors ( including PWRs ) the concrete shell of the reactor building needs to withstand a pressure of five bars , whereas a fast breeder has to cope with a mere 40 millibars , according to an Electricite de France engineer . |
| 18 | The details of this task are entrusted to the Future Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which has to cope with a flood of requests from the various Departments of State who all wish to have their proposals included . |
| 19 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 20 | Man also has to cope with a great range of natural disasters , like earthquakes , hurricanes and volcanoes — other topics studied in Geography . |
| 21 | One of the difficulties , it seems to me , that exists in schools today is that the teacher has to cope with a fairly large class , and one possible advantage of having a fair number of microcomputers |
| 22 | Lady Merchiston 's situation , Theda recognised , was symptomatic of the whole , and she could appreciate that the Diggorys could scarcely be expected to cope with a task that would baffle an army of servants . |
| 23 | Thus SMC corresponds to plant with a maximum capacity Q ' and SMC 2 to plant with a maximum capacity Q 2 . |
| 24 | Rechem has responded with a rather desperate open-door policy aimed at soothing fears , and more recently by issuing about a dozen writs against the fiercest critics . |
| 25 | Mr Van de Kamp , the state attorney-general , who admits to a personal distaste for execution , has responded with a commercial in which he boasts of sending people to death row — while , in the background , the camera dwells on a close-up of the gas chamber . |
| 26 | Lord Marshall , the CEGB 's former chairman who has resigned with a £250,000 payoff , said the lower return would be especially disappointing to staff who had ‘ devoted their customary high level of professional commitment to preparations for privatisation ’ . |
| 27 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 28 | Neither does the inquirer need to come with a programme almost ready made wanting the centre only to book the air tickets . |
| 29 | This may be the case literally when a French speaker has to communicate with a non-French speaker but , even within a common language , usage varies enormously . |
| 30 | Saint Laurent 's clashing ric-rac , dazzling mixed with a print . |