Example sentences of "[pers pn] with the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 2 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 3 | A tablespoon of bran , which might provide you with the same amount of fibre , is not nearly so nutritious . |
| 4 | Thus the author of A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens , probably Richard Overton , reminded the House of Commons in 1646 that " wee are your Principalls , and you our Agents- … wee possessed you with the same Power that was in our selves … |
| 5 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 6 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 7 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 8 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 9 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 12 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
| 13 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 14 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
| 15 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 16 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 17 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 18 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 19 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 20 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 21 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 22 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 23 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 24 | While recognising that successful sexual relations in later life depended to some extent on earlier satisfactory sexual expression the study known as the Starr-Weiner Report ( Starr and Bakur-Weiner , 1982 ) confirmed that ‘ Older adults are interested in sex , think about it , desire it , engage in it with the same frequency that Kinsey reported for forty year-olds . ’ |
| 25 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 26 | Since cooperation was mutual trading — a genuine alternative to traditional retailing which existed to generate profit — the act of levying a profits tax challenged the integrity and identity of the movement , endowing it with the same status as private trading . |
| 27 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 28 | And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’ |
| 29 | He said nothing , forked another fish , swallowed it with the same indifference he might appropriate to putting out the rubbish . |
| 30 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |