Example sentences of "[verb] with a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence is mounting against the received wisdom that interfering with a person 's cholesterol intake can reliably alter his or her destiny . |
| 2 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 3 | By the time we had cossetted one floor Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke 's legs were criss-crossed by lines resembling a noughts and crosses grid , and my jeans , saturated with a witch 's brew of chemicals , were gathering dust and fluff like a thieving magpie . |
| 4 | At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box . |
| 5 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |
| 6 | In art , she is often depicted with a cat 's head while carrying a shield and rattle , to frighten away thunder-storms , and a basket to carry grain . |
| 7 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 8 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 9 | So too had parents who disagreed with a judge 's decision on any matter , however minor , concerning a child 's education or welfare . |
| 10 | Would members and firms who disagreed with a DG 's pronouncements be content to remain silent ? |
| 11 | In developing work in the classroom one 's own expectations and experiences often interfere with a child 's progress and it is important to be aware of this and exercise self control . |
| 12 | Environmental uncertainties for a corporation are so numerous as to defy classification , but none the less , there are five important sources of problems which potentially interfere with a corporation 's ability to achieve its goal(s) easily without bending , evading , or breaking legal regulations . |
| 13 | He left Uppingham in 1937 , following rheumatic fever , to serve with a Lloyd 's underwriting firm . |
| 14 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 15 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 16 | No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) . |
| 17 | The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age . |
| 18 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 19 | ‘ Pow , and you 're down , ’ Norman Mailer once remarked admiringly of Orwell 's prose , in a televised interview , imitating with a boxer 's punch the flash of a fist . |
| 20 | ‘ For the purposes of section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 ( which excludes the duty to comply with a parent 's preference as to the school at which education is to be provided for his child if compliance with the preference would prejudice the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources ) , no such prejudice shall be taken to arise from the admission to a school in any school year of a number of pupils in any relevant age group which does not exceed [ the number so to be admitted ] . |
| 21 | The value of redundancy payments increases with a worker 's length of service and any break deprives workers of their rights to payments . |
| 22 | Although Glam was finally banished it was not before he had cursed his employer , saying he would ‘ see with a ghost 's sight ’ . |
| 23 | No less is to be expected of a vehicle sold with a manufacturer 's warranty . |
| 24 | The fact that the car had been sold with a manufacturer 's warranty was irrelevant . |
| 25 | A tank cutter has an adjustable arm which scribes the hole and is best used with a carpenter 's brace . |
| 26 | Two men armed with a butcher 's knife and wearing balaclavas , forced their way behind the bar of the Vauxhill Arms pub in Gloucester after closing time and forced the landlord to open two tills . |
| 27 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 28 | But that 's how cash was counted in those days and erm , the waybill was marked to agree with a man 's statement of what his cash added up to and then the cash next day was counted up bolt because there was Priory Heath to take care of , although that was n't a media when I first went down there , that opened later on , but there was the two got to be married together and then conveyed to the bank the next day , or , on the Monday if it was a Saturday or Sunday . |
| 29 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 30 | Filled with a cream 's ‘ key ’ ingredients , they carry then into the top layers . |