Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 3 | to continue to provide them with that service . |
| 4 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 5 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 6 | Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area . |
| 7 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 8 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 9 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 10 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 11 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 12 | There are several people who will probably need to help you with various parts of the work from the very beginning to completion ; Environmental Health Officers , Builders , Architects or Surveyors , Building Control Officers and Occupational Therapists . |
| 13 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 14 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 15 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 16 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 17 | Sure enough , the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand . |
| 18 | The penal system needs to legitimate itself with three groups of people : with the public ( including politicians , commentators etc. ) , with penal staff ( including prison staff and probation officers ) and with the penal subjects ( prisoners , probationers and others who are subject to penal treatment ) . |
| 19 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 20 | ‘ They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with other girls . |
| 21 | They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with any other girls . |
| 22 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 23 | When young people play central parts in adventure stones , their motives and actions are as a rule suitably moderated nor are they expected to concern themselves with elaborate points of honour . |
| 24 | They would seek to liberate themselves with European machinery and European techniques . |
| 25 | Some excitable Slav nationalists still talk of a united Macedonia ; but then some excitable Greek nationalists still want to unite themselves with southern Albania ( North Epirus to them ) , a bit farther west . |
| 26 | ‘ They want to charge you with all the murders and assaults and take you to court , day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 27 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 28 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 29 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 30 | Straightforward in principle , although highly complex in technical detail , the majority of today 's desk-top fax machines rarely seek to sell themselves with seductive design ( the usual Japanese route to consumer appeal ) ; they just sit there , looking like little photocopiers or big telephones , doing what they are supposed to do . |