Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , although it was a little slower in use , no time was lost in the field through frequent breaks for sharpening with the rub-stone as were needed with both swap-hook and scythe .
2 At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest .
3 erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war .
4 ( marketing and PR officer ) is responsible for assisting with the implementation of marketing and PR strategy , organising exhibitions and events such as conferences or seminars that may be arranged , the annual lunch and any public receptions planned from year to year .
5 Other changes , such as experimenting with the creation of single-sex mathematics classes in a mixed school , are less straightforward and would depend for their success on the particular context of each individual school , and especially the reasons for employing this strategy .
6 In particular , it is worth experimenting with the direction of both the roll and the stall turn to see if any improvement can be found .
7 Put both side levers to I is for knitting with the carriage those needles in working ( B ) position , while others are in E , holding position .
8 For those who prefer to work as a team , what about helping with a flag day ?
9 It also remained a source of controversy among the Canadian electorate , its supporters maintaining that it was essential for competing with the world 's other large trading blocs , while its opponents blamed it for Canada 's current economic malaise .
10 Little acts of kindness which required the body 's co-operation , such as helping with the washing-up after a good meal , demanded a prodigious amount of persuasion ; while a really big thing , like finishing Student Cross , just met with stubborn resistance .
11 They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size .
12 JUDGING BY THE evidence , a fireplace used for cooking with a salt recess beside it , there used to be a family living in the cellar of the rambling 16th century oak-beamed warren in Stow on the Wold , the heart of the Cotswolds .
13 They charge you an extra quid for booking with a credit card , and say they ca n't be held responsible if the postman wobs the ticket in transit .
14 I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry .
15 Thursday 's performance at Darlington Arts Centre is sold out , although it might be worth checking with the box office ( ) for returns .
16 These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism .
17 By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties .
18 Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process .
19 It may , in fact , be counter-productive because it produces a state of high emotional arousal ( anger or anxiety ) that is notorious for interfering with the acquisition of new skills and behaviours .
20 There will always be books which are worth launching with a party because you are going to get wide coverage , but the half-page ad in Cosmo on your own is n't worth half as much as an advertorial that is tied in with a bookshop group .
21 But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms .
22 Clarke had 14 stitches in a knee wound after colliding with a goal post in a reserve match before Christmas .
23 This aircraft , together with S1263 and S1264 , was also modified to accept installation of three 825hp Rolls-Royce Buzzard IIMS engines , the first machine so updated flying in March 1932 , and being redesignated Iris Mk V. Both S1263 and S1264 were lost in 1933 , S1263 sinking after colliding with a launch in Plymouth Sound .
24 Below : Iris III S1263 fitted with Rolls-Royce Buzzard engines became the Mk V. This aircraft was lost in 1933 after colliding with a launch in Plymouth Sound .
25 After toying with the idea of having two ( we were advised against it — in hindsight a blessing ) we chose a tri-coloured one .
26 As the cabinet 's toughest fighter ( and worst-dressed member ) , Mr Clarke knows how dishevelled he could look after grappling with a budget deficit forecast to be £50 billion ( $18 billion ) this year .
27 The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed .
28 It is permissible to remove mice born in quarantine 3 weeks after weaning with the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture .
29 Long after breaking with the Campaign Group , Beckett was still offering comradely greetings to its supporters in its party conference newsletter .
30 One major source of pesticides in our diet is potatoes , because these are sprayed after harvesting with a pesticide called thiabendazole , to prevent them from going mouldy .
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