Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 2 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 3 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 4 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 5 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 6 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 7 | When the door to the Scotland team opened in Paris earlier this season , the Bonnyrigg blacksmith seized the opportunity and went on to establish himself with further caps against Wales and England . |
| 8 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 9 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 10 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 11 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 12 | Some day soon I may call in to see you with out for half-an-hour ! |
| 13 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 14 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 15 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 16 | only helping me with the |
| 17 | Government reports , social legislation , anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work . |
| 18 | I passed a church on the way and really believe I would have gone in to sprinkle myself with holy water — but it was locked , as churches are , these days , against vandals . |
| 19 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 20 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 21 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 22 | British liberal political thought , hitherto contenting itself with a more or less straightforward advocacy of laissez-faire non-interventionist policies , began to transform itself into what has been called " social liberalism " . |
| 23 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 24 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 25 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 26 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 27 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 28 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 29 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 30 | Well Stu does a great Bruce Forsyth impression and appears to be perfecting Jimmy Hill as well , so ply him with beer and he 'll have a word with the Chelsea Chopper . |