Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 2 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 3 | Once installed , tenants were regularly visited by voluntary lady rent-collectors whose task was to advise tenants on the management of the household or other aspects of their lives — how to sweep their floors , wash their children and clothing and to conduct themselves with propriety . |
| 4 | James finally agreed to 70 , and signed a requisition form , agreeing on behalf of the appellants to pay for the services of the men provided at certain specified rates per diem and also for their travelling expenses and to provide them with food and sleeping accommodation . |
| 5 | Dementia sufferers therefore need people to help them with personal and house care ; to safeguard them ( and others who may be affected ) from risks such as gas or road traffic , from harming themselves or others , or from being harmed by others ( for they may become vulnerable to attack , theft , etc ) , and to provide them with companionship and emotional support in their frequent loneliness and depression ( see Norman , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | An important role of the office is to alert researchers in UK higher education establishments to the opportunities available , and to provide them with advice on the programme most relevant to their research needs . |
| 7 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 8 | A series of contacts with the CNAA from 1965 produced the controversies over the attempt to introduce full-time courses in various disciplines , and to combine them with sandwich courses , with Brighton 's first full-time courses in engineering being approved at the end of that year . |
| 9 | He must know the local language sufficiently well to follow what is going on round him and to record it with accuracy and subtlety . |
| 10 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 11 | The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting . |
| 12 | Below ground level , out of sight and sometimes out of mind , is the root system , whose functions are to anchor the plant in the soil and to supply it with water and soluble nutrients . |
| 13 | Ron Sykes has been reported to the Crown Prosecution Service who will decide whether to charge him with traffic offences . |
| 14 | The difficulty for mid-nineteenth-century science lay not so much in admitting such a historisation of the universe — nothing was easier to conceive in an era of such overwhelmingly obvious and massive historic changes — as to combine it with uniform , continuous and non-revolutionary operations of unchanging natural laws . |