Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 2 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 3 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 4 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 5 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |
| 7 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 8 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 10 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 11 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 12 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 13 | The experiment in which people inflicted electric shocks on subjects who were actually actors is known to all psychology students , and even journalology has an important study that depended on deception : editors had papers that they had already published resubmitted to them with the titles and addresses changed and then rejected most of them — providing evidence , the researchers argued , that editors and referees were biased against authors from provincial universities . |
| 14 | The masks spoke to her with the voice of the past . |