Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , although it was a little slower in use , no time was lost in the field through frequent breaks for sharpening with the rub-stone as were needed with both swap-hook and scythe . |
| 2 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 3 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 4 | ( marketing and PR officer ) is responsible for assisting with the implementation of marketing and PR strategy , organising exhibitions and events such as conferences or seminars that may be arranged , the annual lunch and any public receptions planned from year to year . |
| 5 | Other changes , such as experimenting with the creation of single-sex mathematics classes in a mixed school , are less straightforward and would depend for their success on the particular context of each individual school , and especially the reasons for employing this strategy . |
| 6 | In particular , it is worth experimenting with the direction of both the roll and the stall turn to see if any improvement can be found . |
| 7 | Put both side levers to I is for knitting with the carriage those needles in working ( B ) position , while others are in E , holding position . |
| 8 | It also remained a source of controversy among the Canadian electorate , its supporters maintaining that it was essential for competing with the world 's other large trading blocs , while its opponents blamed it for Canada 's current economic malaise . |
| 9 | Little acts of kindness which required the body 's co-operation , such as helping with the washing-up after a good meal , demanded a prodigious amount of persuasion ; while a really big thing , like finishing Student Cross , just met with stubborn resistance . |
| 10 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 11 | I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry . |
| 12 | Thursday 's performance at Darlington Arts Centre is sold out , although it might be worth checking with the box office ( ) for returns . |
| 13 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 14 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 15 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 16 | It may , in fact , be counter-productive because it produces a state of high emotional arousal ( anger or anxiety ) that is notorious for interfering with the acquisition of new skills and behaviours . |
| 17 | After toying with the idea of having two ( we were advised against it — in hindsight a blessing ) we chose a tri-coloured one . |
| 18 | The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed . |
| 19 | It is permissible to remove mice born in quarantine 3 weeks after weaning with the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 20 | Long after breaking with the Campaign Group , Beckett was still offering comradely greetings to its supporters in its party conference newsletter . |
| 21 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 22 | After registering with the receptionist , a set of case-notes is made out , and these are then sent through to the doctor who will be doing the interviewing and the examination . |
| 23 | After arguing with the night porter for another ten minutes , they worked their way up floor by floor . |
| 24 | After haggling with the airline official and trying to make sure that I did n't have to pay the charges with foreign currency , the woman in charge suddenly said : ‘ All right , pay in Iraqi dinars ! ’ |
| 25 | After lunching with the architect Mr. Webster , the family heard the Messiah in the Parish Church , ‘ the recitative ‘ Comfort ye ’ executed by Braham in a very superior state . ’ |
| 26 | After fiddling with the stem of his glass for a few seconds , he looked straight at her and said : |
| 27 | Er , before we start , I would like to say that we have received a request er , I think it was from Longman Dic tories er Dictionaries to have er , one of our meetings recorded , and er , after discussing with the leader of the Council , er and er we decided that that this may be the best committee to record . |
| 28 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 29 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 30 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |