Example sentences of "with that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leo Tolstoy asked the question , and in 1898 his remarkable book with that title gave his reply . |
| 2 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 4 | In the New Left Review , Benedict Anderson has made sharp criticisms of the work of the journalist and poet James Fenton which compare it with that of Kapuscinski and Naipaul . |
| 5 | This is a progress which has found its haven in the achievements of Mrs Thatcher , and the Patrick of the Eighties will have to deal with that . |
| 6 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 7 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 8 | It is nothing so ever to do with that Australian or Cockney mechanic . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Geoffrey did n't care that we were poor , it was nothing to do with that . |
| 10 | He did not acknowledge Conroy , but hurried on down with that glazed look of someone already encased in their next entrance . |
| 11 | They ca n't fool me with that ‘ powdering my nose ’ act . |
| 12 | To the Festival with that 7 year itch |
| 13 | All the best to the Festival with that 7 year itch . |
| 14 | And with that he continued on his way . |
| 15 | The floor was a bit damp but I could put up with that . |
| 16 | And with that , she ran off . |
| 17 | ‘ People do have a fascination with that , do n't they ? |
| 18 | There is just one problem with that essential book Gardens of England and Wales Open to the Public 1991 — there are over 2,600 gardens to choose from . |
| 19 | Since most sound idyllic , I seek out those with that little extra something . |
| 20 | For this reason I always emphasise that if , as you complete the final turn , you are happy that you have got the field ‘ made ’ , you should always open full airbrake for a few moments to check that you would undershoot with that setting . |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't put up with that , ’ said Piggy-wig . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , do n't bother with that , ’ said Lucy . |
| 23 | You said you could n't handle it , but you did n't stick with that . |
| 24 | They had a summer full of sand and sea and gold , Jay was blessed with that summer and the sunshine of Astrid 's love . |
| 25 | ‘ Angus , ’ he said , ‘ if anybody ever says anything to you , think to yourself , How can I disagree with that ? |
| 26 | ‘ We will not waste our time chopping logic with that underling . |
| 27 | ‘ Given the known sympathies of yourself and your associates with the ‘ republic ’ in France , you would clearly be eager to counsel young men against warring with that country — ‘ ‘ Associates ’ ? |
| 28 | He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often . |
| 29 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 30 | If Let Us Compare Mythologies is a young man 's book , this is one ( though still of a young man , at 26 ) that offers poetic maturity , whose lyrics are charged with that mellow wistfulness , that trembling of angst , that vibration of incipient guilt and the plunging sensuality of a knowing , searching man ; a book whose range — for all that — is narrower than Let Us Compare Mythologies . |