Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be inclined to house the mower elsewhere , or replace it with an electric one . |
| 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 | The trap to be avoided here is to turn the exercise into another source of demand by forcing yourself to go faster every day , swearing that you are going to beat your partner next time , or overdoing it with the weights . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alternatively , you could use a medium-weight microfibre , wool or a wool mix , leaving it unlined , or lining it with the fabric of your choice . |
| 8 | Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer . |
| 9 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 10 | As long as people find the Christian story good there is reason to believe in it , or to believe it with the exception of some of the more minor matters such as virgin birth or the creation stories which they have had to decide are untrue ( or only symbolically true ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 14 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 15 | A pair of racing shoes could lift your performance or leave you with an appealing but unnecessary extravagance . |
| 16 | or mark them with the black , persistent crows |
| 17 | The leader of the Kosovo Parliamentary Party , Veton Suroi , was subsequently sentenced to two months ' imprisonment for organising the event without seeking permission , or registering it with the police . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can wet the line or spray it with a silicone floatant . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You can come back here for dinner if you wants , or have it with the others . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 25 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 26 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | I think you will have to treat yourselves to one of those records ( or , I suppose , tapes ) that provide you with an orchestral piece minus one instrument — for instance , I believe you could obtain a Beethoven concerto minus the piano part , which you then supply . |