Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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1 | As far as she was aware , no one had cut themselves or pricked themselves with a needle . |
2 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
3 | Syphon it off , or remove it with a power filter if available . |
4 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
5 | Your right to use your ex-husband 's contributions to improve or provide you with a pension depends on your age and/or whether you remarry before the age of 60 . |
6 | Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer . |
7 | If the plaster is still in reasonable condition , have the walls lined with bitumen paper or brush them with a waterproofing liquid , adding battens treated with a preservative , and hang with plasterboard to make a new surface in front of the old one . |
8 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
9 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
10 | You can wet the line or spray it with a silicone floatant . |
11 | Failure to achieve this goal at the outset may result in a patient who depends on others for insulin injections , misses injections or does them with a very poor technique . |
12 | AS another week begins , every working mum today has an extra worry on her mind as she drops off her children at the childminder 's or leaves them with a nanny . |
13 | I then saw the other soldier standing behind him — either going to hit , or hitting him with a rifle on the leg , ’ he told the court . |
14 | If you locate your own specimens it is worth so very much more than catching one with a name . |
15 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |
16 | And Northumberland had chosen , rather than pursue them with a force then quite inadequate , to gather his and his sons ' levies and wait for the marauders to return . |
17 | The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain . |
18 | Furthermore , the idea of network impinges fairly closely on the notion of sociolinguistic functions , as we have presented this in chapter 2 , because it is a fundamental postulate of network analysis that individuals create personal communities that provide them with a meaningful framework for solving the problems of their day-to-day existence ( Mitchell 1986 : 74 ) . |
19 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
20 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
21 | In other words , the aim is to neutralize a troublesome feeling rather than to replace it with a positive feeling . |
22 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
23 | And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now . |
24 | It 's only the knowledge that Television , Patti Smith , Blondie and The Ramones used the place as their Bull & Gates in the olden days that flushes you with a tingly sense of excitement when you find out that the toilet is a damp patch on the floor . |
25 | When have I done anything less than love you with a passion that you chose to throw back in my face , not once but twice ? |
26 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
27 | Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ? |
28 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury . |
29 | Cover those seeds that need it with a layer of sifted compost and firm it over them . |
30 | The latter become the ‘ mensonge vital ’ of fantasy and fiction that provides her with a means of coping in a hostile world . |