Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] and [verb] with " in BNC.
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1 | When asked eight weeks ago what her dream for the future was , Tatum replied : ‘ It 's that when John 's career is finished he takes care of the kids while I make two pictures a year and get to pick my scripts and work with whoever I want . |
2 | I shut my eyes and tremble with the effort to get it vividly in my mind . |
3 | ‘ Just bind it somehow so I can get on my feet and deal with that slut . ’ |
4 | I lower my pants and make with the magic handle . |
5 | We sat down , I on the arm-chair , he on the floor at my feet : He held one of my hands and played with the fingers . |
6 | I buried my face in my hands and cried with helplessness . |
7 | At last I stopped retching and washed my hands and face with a cloth . |
8 | A few yards away , a group of police motorcyclists in their olive-green leathers lounged by their bikes and chatted with friends . |
9 | She intended to pick up her cases and proceed with what she was here to do , go up and out into the street and thence to Streatham Street to find the hotel . |
10 | What they can not lift they put between their legs and waddle with to the edge of the bus . |
11 | Wriggling her shoulders and pushing with her feet , she covered the last ten yards . |
12 | Two of them shook their heads and consulted with each other in low voices . |
13 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
14 | They had stayed in the abbey kicking their heels and helping with administrative tasks to pay their way ; now , one of them was only too happy to take the letter and ride south with Corbett 's instructions ringing in his ears . |
15 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
16 | ROS marches up behind her , puts his hands over her eyes and says with a desperate frivolity . ) |
17 | She threw her arms round the horse 's neck and in return , it flicked its ears and snickered with pleasure . |
18 | Anne sat next to him on his mother 's cretonne-covered settee and Abigail lay on a plaid rug on the floor , kicking with her legs and punching with her arms . |
19 | She ran down the track as if the hounds of death were at her heels and struggled with the door of the jeep , snatched at the steering-wheel , fumbled with the ignition . |
20 | She sat back on her heels and watched with pleasure as the flames surged and roared and the twigs sparked and crackled up into the wide opening of the chimney . |
21 | That being so , the West can shrug its shoulders and live with them . |
22 | These are paintings of solid forms stripped of all their inessentials and reinterpreted with almost geometric exactitude . |
23 | But he says he does n't feel the pressure of carrying their aspirations and coping with the adulation . |
24 | I 'd never seen Mum dance before , but she slipped out of her sandals and danced with Auntie Jean to the Jackson Five . |
25 | Mary Georgina Boulton observes that women with pre-school children , in order to restore a sense of control in their lives and cope with their workload , need to create a structure to their work . |
26 | A teenager who feels she has a share in making family policies is far more likely to accept the need to give and take , balancing her wants and needs with those of her parents . |
27 | Started in 1990 , the RIGS scheme aims to build a network of local groups gathering information on their areas and liaising with local authorities and others to improve protection of sites of particular importance . |
28 | But Weller — unlike a large number of the audience who had chosen to bring their snorts and sniffles with them , was laid up with flu in Vienna . |
29 | Laying down her coffee mug with a decisive thud , she got to her feet and strode with her usual long-legged grace to the dining-room . |
30 | In the epicentre of the maelstrom , with the moon at her feet and crowned with the stars was Maggie , surprisingly unmoved . |