Example sentences of "[verb] with [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the little foreigner was obviously insane , he was also generous and considerably less lethal than half the people the wizard had mixed with in the city . |
| 2 | The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times . |
| 3 | Or they , what kind of problems do , problems tend to come with from the flats ? |
| 4 | This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time . |
| 5 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 6 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 7 | William Jardine [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ honest and liberal beyond what we generally meet with , or even expect to meet with in the general intercourse of business transactions ’ . |
| 8 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 9 | A girl I used to work with at the Beechams did like really big burps . |
| 10 | than we 're presented with in the reports , he does it all the time Chairman . |
| 11 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 12 | Victory went to McConnochie 's Golden Friend , whose win puts him in line for a tilt at next year 's Grand National , while Stephenson 's The Thinker proved that he will again be a force to be reckoned with in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March . |
| 13 | Bradwell was clearly a force to be reckoned with in the village . |
| 14 | As it stands , we are one of the larger packaging groups in Europe and North America and a force to be reckoned with in the industry . |
| 15 | I think it looks like he wanted to get the thing over and done with before the Sabbath . |
| 16 | This squirt of wheelspin which initiates the final turning phase is barely visible ; the turning is all over and done with by the time the speculator broadslides complete the rider 's acceleration out of the corner . |
| 17 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |
| 18 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 19 | Even money could not buy a quick passage through some of the conditions met with on the unimproved roads of the early eighteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 21 | A typical view was expressed in a guide-book to Bedfordshire by the Revd Thomas Cox in 1721 : ‘ John Bunyan , author of the Pilgrim 's progress , and several other little books of an antinomian spirit , too frequently to be met with in the hands of the common people , was , if we mistake not , a brazier of Bedford . ’ |
| 22 | The problems he encountered , which included the use of authors ’ names ( gender differences , dropped initials , etc. ) , nationality differences in publication rates , the lack of informative titles and so on , were all met with in the present survey also , with similar failures to idenitify uniquely some ‘ problem ’ authors . |
| 23 | It should be pointed out , however , that other definitions of strain will be met with in the literature , most notably , is often called the true strain , while an expression arising from the kinetic theory of elasticity has the form |
| 24 | We were particularly tempting targets and , bombarded with jeers and gallons of water , we finally fled the hamlet clutching our sopping equipment to our bosoms like hysterical mothers — little comforted by the thought that these were the spiritual mediators of the people we intended to sail with over the months ahead … |
| 25 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 26 | Because he deals with on the |
| 27 | It is preferable for government , by training civil servants properly , by using sound management techniques , by carefully specifying the tasks to be performed by its employees and by monitoring their performance , to prevent the sorts of errors and mistakes which judicial control deals with after the event . |
| 28 | A Disaffection shares in that uncertainty , and in so doing acknowledges a connection with a certain whether-or-not that we meet with in the plays of Shakespeare . |
| 29 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |
| 30 | Except for the need to make the prescribed disclosure ( see page 41 above ) , the retained marketing rules that non-UK offices have to comply with despite the foreign business carve-out apply only where the firm is carrying on investment business in the UK . |