Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 2 | ‘ He came straight to me with the tale , ’ said Hugh , reckoning up in a low voice for Cadfael 's ear alone . |
| 3 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 4 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 5 | Woodruffe pushed it open , and the organized moan of pleading chords reached out to them with the smell of cold masonry and dusty matting and faintly dinging incense . |
| 6 | That has been contradicted by the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , who has said that he would take money from British farmers with one hand and give part of it back to them with the other . |
| 7 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 8 | She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call . |
| 9 | There , they would check it off and whoosh it back to you with the customer 's change and the docket stamped . |
| 10 | Well , I am quite willing to find out from the City Council Officers after this programme what the numbers are , if that 's the issue you want explored , and we 'll come back to you with the precise details . |
| 11 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 12 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |