Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process .
2 But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture .
3 Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it .
4 He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes .
5 They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth .
6 She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees .
7 I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much .
8 Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back .
9 Anybody come with me to the hospital
10 The most recent recipient was the Sultan of Brunei who was presented with his by the Chancellor Lord Jenkins .
11 Instead , the architects , McKay and Forresters , of Glasgow , were presented with it at the Edinburgh reception .
12 I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S .
13 How much business have you done with them over the last year ?
14 No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed .
15 Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news .
16 In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming .
17 But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ .
18 My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia .
19 Feeling defeated suddenly , she discovered that it was no good trying to recapture the fury she had felt with him in the hope of that fury helping her battle against the way she was feeling .
20 She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens .
21 It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace .
22 He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move .
23 Those preferring milk to grog or porter were plentifully supplied with it at the house . ’
24 You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country .
25 This was the line taken by the No More War Movement , and most of the socialist left agreed with it in the early 1930s .
26 I 've talked with him on the telephone and with any luck he should be over here on Monday .
27 Watkinson was helped with his by the Kuwait crisis of 1961 .
28 In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer .
29 The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea .
30 If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train .
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