Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gratitude that the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Rugby Union have apparently stopped insulting us with Scotland the Brave is not reason enough to allow them to inflict ‘ the people 's choice ’ upon us . |
| 2 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 3 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 4 | He intends running it with myriad Sparc chips , everything from a low-end Tsunami to a high-end Viking or HyperSparc but until those pieces of silicon become available he 'll use a 40MHz MBus-based Cypress chip that can be swapped out when the time comes . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't like leaving him with Ma , ’ Aunt Sarah said occasionally , worried . |
| 6 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 7 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 8 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 9 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 10 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 11 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 12 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 13 | In a ‘ Keep Doing It With Wispa ’ competition held by the chocolate manufacturers the nomination of the school was chosen as a winner , resulting in the delivery of over 800 Wispa bars . |
| 14 | Also try mixing it with oatmeal for a really effective exfoliating scrub . |
| 15 | He lay watching me with eyes that were at last getting drowsy . |
| 16 | I liked the Pocket Gem , it worked flawlessly , but I preferred using it with WinFax Pro , which even lists the relatively new Gem in its list of supported modems . |
| 17 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 18 | Well , yes they do overwhelm you until you start associating them with services that are provided by that finance with the people whose lives are affected by them , and erm you break them down and obviously all councillors , I think , have areas of special interest and so you become much more familiar with particular areas of the Council 's expenditure erm rather than necessarily being very , very precisely informed about every single area . |
| 19 | Gould would have been happy to remain in the same spot if it would continue providing him with novelties . |
| 20 | I could n't help contrasting it with Antrim , Edinburgh , Gateshead , even Crystal Palace where you needed two or three tracksuits just to keep warm . |