Example sentences of "[vb infin] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 2 | Banc One has a rule that it will not merge with an institution that is larger than one-third its own size . |
| 3 | cos it was all fresh cos he was gon na get meat tomorrow and the following day , so I says to him I says well why did n't you use your cheque book ? , he says oh I never thought of that he says , cos it takes a few days to get it , he do n't know with a cheque book |
| 4 | To the extent that interest rates and yields do fall with an expansion of the money supply , people may well hold larger money balances : after all , the opportunity cost of holding that liquidity ( i.e. the interest sacrificed by not holding bonds , etc. ) has been reduced . |
| 5 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 6 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |
| 7 | Trevino taught Willie course yardages , Mexican-American humour and how they could win with a quip and a smile . |
| 8 | However , not all females show equally strong preferences , and they decided to breed from the females that did mate with a quadrimaculata male , to see whether their offspring would also show the preference . |
| 9 | A woman should never flirt with a man other than her husband , but this does not mean that she is oppressed in any way . |
| 10 | Comedy is radical , too , in the sense of forcing the reader to reconsider traditional reverences : tragedy can flatter and soothe with an assurance that even in the dungeon or on the scaffold the heroic mind is invulnerable . |
| 11 | You ca n't shave with a tiddlywink , |
| 12 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 13 | Again , they shrug , if they could survive with a front-row of Ricky Evans , Nigel Meek and Hugh Williams-Jones against England , they should hardly be in undue trouble against Scotland — particularly as they will be under the eye of the same referee in France 's Joel Dume . |
| 14 | Strange that it should survive with an adversary , the BBMF Mk II Spit which I once serviced . |
| 15 | The proposal will commence with a reappraisal of existing data of polyester roofing systems from work previously undertaken by BFRC . |
| 16 | Formal monitoring should commence with an inspection of cleaning/disinfection standards , immediately preceding the trial , a record of which should be kept . |
| 17 | The breath caught in her throat as his hands cupped her naked breasts , his thumbs stroking the already erect nipples , making them throb with a pleasure that was akin to anguish . |
| 18 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 19 | These organisations are ready and willing to accept your work and reproduce it to a significantly higher quality that you can achieve with a page printer such as Apple 's LaserWriter or even AM Varityper 's VT 600 . |
| 20 | Documents= : File extensions that the File Manager will associate with a document . |
| 21 | But Wolf 's concern for " stimulus " and " suggestion " was , ultimately , a means to an end that might be defined very much in terms of " knowledge " and not at all in terms of cultural purpose such as one would associate with a figure like Lessing . |
| 22 | For example , now that autumn is fading and the leaves are carpeting the ground in a tapestry of brilliant colours , just as one imagines that winter is only a clear night sky away , along come some plants which we might all associate with a spring display . |
| 23 | ‘ I could only speak with a muffle . ’ |
| 24 | As both a guitarist and an adman , I can speak with a bit of authority . |
| 25 | He can speak with a bit of slurring , so what . |
| 26 | She could feel the almost-accidental brush of his hand against her hair and felt herself flood with a warmth deeper and more insistent than the scalding heat of the water in which they were immersed . |
| 27 | A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual . |
| 28 | SO , in the end , it did finish with a whimper and not a bang . |
| 29 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 30 | While one can sympathise with a player whose season has virtually been written off , his decision to take legal action over what is surely an occupational hazard opens the door for other players to consider following suit . |