Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 2 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 3 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 4 | In the old days manufacturers produced the goods and salesmen sold them with the help of advertising . |
| 5 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 6 | Scalding tears brimmed over , and James Halden checked them with the cushion of his thumb . |
| 7 | Moreover , radicals with reservations about the socialist credentials of the USSR confronted the dilemma that every word of criticism aligned them with the ‘ reactionary ’ views dominant in the West : to attack Moscow , the acknowledged centre of international revolution ; was tantamount to sympathy for her capitalist enemies . |
| 8 | Berlioz would have shouted a protest there and then , but Plantade registered his with the Courrier des spectacles : ‘ masterpieces should be left alone ’ . |
| 9 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 10 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 11 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 12 | Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence . |
| 13 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 14 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 16 | Taff prodded me with the butt of the Bren gun . |
| 17 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 18 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 19 | Comments included ‘ Scott helped me with the photocopying ’ , ‘ Can we stay in the groups because I really like working with Bobby ? ’ and ‘ Why could n't we stay all day ? ’ |
| 20 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 21 | ‘ Beuno helped me with the washing-up after you went to bed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My niece , Gina , helped me with the washing-up . |
| 23 | Soon after my retirement the Oxford University Press approached me with the suggestion that I might collect and edit an anthology of prayers . |
| 24 | Taff approached them with the remark , ‘ You will have to do better than that , Boyos . |
| 25 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 26 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 28 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 29 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 30 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |