Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 2 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 3 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 4 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 5 | She picked up the menu and scanned it with the air of a gourmet . |
| 6 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 7 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 8 | These replies were highly satisfactory to the King , who summoned Baldwin to the Palace at 3.15 p.m. and charged him with the task of forming a Government . |
| 9 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 10 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 12 | She was weeping now , and he knelt beside her , stiffly , and promised her with the touch of his hand on her shoulder that he would bring help . |
| 13 | When he found the man he threw the acid into his face and beat him with the hammer , fracturing his skull and his thumb . |
| 14 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 15 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 16 | Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ . |
| 17 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 18 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 19 | Tobias sat on the Independent and helped her with the pheasant pâté . |
| 20 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |
| 21 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 22 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |
| 23 | They have determined the number of BL Lac objects per unit volume of space , and compared it with the space density of quasars and other types of active galaxies ( submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ) . |
| 24 | First they measured the background — the number of gamma rays in the natural environment such as those produced by the concrete in the laboratory and compared it with the number of gamma rays when the electrochemical cell was present . |
| 25 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 26 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 27 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 28 | He turned on the tap and washed them , then brought them back into the room and dried them with the tea-cloth . |
| 29 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 30 | ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk . |