Example sentences of "[conj] with a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 2 | IAN WRIGHT returned to his old hunting ground last night and with a poacher 's instinct shot Arsenal to within a point of the Premier League leadership . |
| 3 | It was a large , imposing room as the name suggested , its walls hung with tapestries , and with a minstrel 's gallery at one end . |
| 4 | People do act out of character , but not often wholly out of character and everything we knew about Stavanger suggested that he was considerate , responsible , and with a shipmaster 's sense of discipline and orderliness . |
| 5 | The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike . |
| 6 | It juddered again , twisted … and fell from the wall on to the tiled floor ; severed clean at the ankle as if with a butcher 's knife . |
| 7 | His hair was black , but with a badger 's streak of white . |
| 8 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 9 | Originally of rugby stock , but with a cricketer 's eye for a ball , he underwent a sea-change to become an excellent hockey player with calm skills and battling determination . |
| 10 | An example from the late-18th century is shaped like a fox 's head but with a swan 's or duck 's head as the handle . |
| 11 | Not exactly with courage , which is a wasting asset , but with a soldier 's fatalism that if it happens , it will be tomorrow and not today . |
| 12 | However , this analysis is not concerned with the merits or the efficacy of policies , but with a president 's success or failure in gaining acceptance of his policies by other political actors . |