Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] with [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 2 | Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit . |
| 3 | ‘ But … we ca n't take your bed , ’ objected Isabel faintly , although she wondered why the thought of sleeping in a bed with fitzAlan seemed worse than sleeping with him on a bench . |
| 4 | In my humble opinion , no person of tender years should be burdened with a constant concentration of learning and training , unless interspersed with lots of leisure-time and outdoor pursuits . |
| 5 | While appearing with them in Berlin in 1937 she tore a ligament and had to give up further hope of dancing . |
| 6 | Whilst drinking with them in a pub Minton had become very attracted to one of Wirth-Miller 's friends , a sailor called Hogey Carmichael . |
| 7 | Please permit her to do so as arranged with you by phone . |
| 8 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 9 | And , though the cats have not been polled on this point , I suspect they would share human mistrust of the new and unknown when approached with it by advertising researchers . |
| 10 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 11 | Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth 's six-page statement , the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism . |
| 12 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
| 13 | 9.15 ( a ) An L-section which when cascaded with itself with reversed input and output connections as depicted in ( h ) forms the symmetric T-section of figure 9.1(b) . |