Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] with their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 2 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 3 | Finally , may I ask all hire car users to write to me with their comments on the use of a mobile phone . |
| 4 | ‘ They came after me with their spears , too ! ’ |
| 5 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 6 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 7 | The Ezbekiya did indeed have its moments , in the very early morning when there were few people about and the big falcons sailed over it with their unexpectedly musical cries and the Egyptian doves cooed softly in the palm trees , but on the whole what Owen liked was the Ezbekiya 's outside . |
| 8 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |
| 9 | He reflected that , after all , it was the attitude he would wish to see adopted by her with their own servants , when they should have them ; and handed her into the jeweller 's . |
| 10 | I heard my men going after him with their guns — and then everything went black . |
| 11 | However , his young family is very important to him , and he had reservations about being a selector because players might be inhibited from coming to him with their problems . |
| 12 | Suddenly , lo and behold , what should they see but the tiger and the jackal coming toward them with their tails tied together . |
| 13 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 14 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 15 | The two of them were drooping by then , in reaction from their long and laborious walk home , and sleepy from the wine mulled for them with their supper . |
| 16 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 17 | The injustice of it all , the knowledge that Spiderglass possessed her and there was nowhere she could hide from them with their tracer in her head , the certainty that Karel could blackmail her with her string of crimes pushing her ever deeper into the mire — it all added up to just one thing . |
| 18 | They will then dive and display and peer at you with their ‘ redcurrant ’ eye , as if seeking approval . |
| 19 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 20 | They wore at him with their shadows and little sounds |
| 21 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 22 | There follows a specimen clause as to costs : In the event of the proposed acquisition not proceeding , either because you withdraw from the transaction or because management or their financiers withdraw because of some material item coming to light of which they were not previously aware , or because contract details can not be reasonably agreed ; then you will reimburse management for all reasonable costs incurred by them with their advisers and financiers . |
| 23 | Another coach-load crowded near me with their guide shouting at them in — what language ? — was it German , maybe Dutch ? |
| 24 | Such was the response from readers who wrote to me with their amazing success stories , that it was decided I should write an extended version of the book and the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet was published last January . |
| 25 | Had n't they paid for it with their National Insurance stamps , income tax , and rates ? |
| 26 | They influenced kings , plotted for and against the crown , and sometimes paid for it with their lives . ’ |
| 27 | Many older horses will just stand and try and drive the bot away by striking at it with their feet . |