Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 2 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 3 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 4 | Somehow she felt this to be a fact , so she said , ‘ Yes — he 's trusted me with such things as letters and accounts . |
| 5 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 6 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 7 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 8 | In court his wife Christine admitted a lesbian relationship and said her husband had once caught her with another woman . |
| 9 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 10 | Her suffering would have overwhelmed anyone with less spirit , as the futile efforts of science to rid her of the growths ravage her body . |
| 11 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 12 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 13 | I 've seen you with that one have n't I ? |
| 14 | He had always been there and when she was little she had worshipped him with all the adulation of any little girl for a big , brave , older brother . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure he could have saved him with all the modern equipment we have . |
| 16 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 17 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 18 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 19 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 20 | I have n't seen her with all her clothes off you know . |
| 21 | Never done it with that |
| 22 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 23 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 24 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 25 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 26 | My waist was so small , they said they had never seen anyone with such a small waist . |
| 27 | Should have made it with that . |
| 28 | Room 's full of Adonises and you 've matched yourself with this rogue . |
| 29 | Although we have answered some questions , our work has presented us with many more . |
| 30 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |