Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to escape the conclusion that he has a mental and emotional block about competing with his compatriots . |
| 2 | As always , I am grateful to you for helping with our recruitment leaflet , a copy of which I have enclosed . |
| 3 | Some improvements — such as replacing soft furnishings or general decorations — do n't qualify for tax relief , so it 's always worth checking with your local tax office . |
| 4 | This state of affairs may change and it would always be worth checking with your nearest educational authority . |
| 5 | A lengthy period , if it 's unusual , can be an indication of an early miscarriage , so it 's worth checking with your GP to see that all is well , simply to ensure that any future pregnancies go smoothly . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) That the existence of pending proceedings in a court of superior jurisdiction was a factor to be taken into account by a judge in deciding how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate proceedings in his own court ; that the district judge had properly assessed the situation and had not erred in refusing to postpone the trials in his court until after the High Court trial ; and that , accordingly , there had been no ground for interfering with his decision ( post , pp. 265F–G , 266G ) . |
| 7 | After struggling with her composure for a moment , Paige began gathering up the odd assortment of utensils they had used . |
| 8 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 9 | After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed . |
| 10 | NIGEL MANSELL was taken to the circuit medical centre at Interlagos suffering from shock and minor injuries after tangling with his old rival , Ayrton Senna , and crashing heavily in the last minute of an incident-filled final qualifying session for today 's Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 11 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 12 | Mary , 45 , was left like Brenda to look after a set of six-year-old twins on her own after splitting with her husband . |
| 13 | McSweeney left Limerick last summer after splitting with her boyfriend . |
| 14 | Police began their inquiry after an unmarried woman was arrested near Thirsk after travelling with her daughter from their home in Hinckley , Leics . |
| 15 | Consequently , when he received another invitation to become a regimental chaplain , this time from Colonel Whalley , after consulting with his fellow ministers in Coventry , Richard Baxter accepted . |
| 16 | Said it 's still very early , we could pop to Leveringham , oh we do n't know where it is we might have some details in this , what we got ta do with my money . |
| 17 | And it will isolate the more effective techniques that parents have at their disposal for communicating with their children . |
| 18 | The trainers are part of my ritual resolution to get fit ( instead of boozing with my mates each evening ) , and the paperwork usually includes at least one final demand from an irate publisher or editor . |
| 19 | This means that rather than having to be deliberately cut down and low on features for fear of competing with its big brother , it can try its best . |
| 20 | He is tired of competing with my friends and their heavy leather jackets , cramped into my floor and furniture , and those clankish guitars , owners unknown , propped unsteady against the table . |
| 21 | I see my biggest contribution to TAG , therefore , as being able to marry the art and craft side of catering with its scientific side . ’ |
| 22 | If , however , the truth is that after years of struggling with her uncertain temperament , and your own fading nerves , you have decided to breed rather than face parting with her , then it is not a good idea . |
| 23 | I covered myself in myself and became the observer , an easy role to assume after years of struggling with their throaty language and its local eccentricities , its dialects and apposite linguistic twists and turns . |
| 24 | What was the point of dying with your lungs gasping for breath ? |
| 25 | However , Tsar Nicholas II did everything to discredit itself in the public eyes instead of cooperating with his nation he withdrew further from realities . |
| 26 | One of Abu Khadra 's first memories — and one that he went back to again and again — was of walking with his brothers Rabah and Anwar through his father 's olive grove in Jaffa to visit the house of his uncles . |
| 27 | Some of the councillors consider they are out of keeping with their surroundings and inappropriate in an AONB . |
| 28 | He wore a pastel-hued cloak and cockaded purple hat quite out of keeping with his surroundings . |
| 29 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 30 | The actuarial profession has its earliest origins in the UK and we have a clear objective of communicating with our professional colleagues in other countries . |