Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 2 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire police said there was no evidence to connect them with recent bombings such as the attack on Royal Marine bandsmen at Deal , Kent . |
| 4 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
| 5 | This research aims to assess UK policies for technical innovation in this broad context and to compare them with similar policies in other countries . |
| 6 | The temptation is to anthropomorphise their plight , to compare them with human beings in similar situations ( as Rollin does explicitly ) who would almost certainly be distressed at the opportunities that they were foregoing and make protest . |
| 7 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 8 | Luckily the girls also managed to provide me with some nephews to balance it up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Although the American Government supports the peace process , it has urged the contras to remain in Honduras until after the Nicaraguan election and has continued to provide them with non-military funds . |
| 10 | It is necessary to attract and select staff , to train them , to provide them with various services and with potentiality for advancement as their skills increase with experience . |
| 11 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
| 12 | Some live within plants , stimulating the tissues of their hosts to provide them with custom-built homes by growing special galls , hollow stems or thorns with swollen bases . |
| 13 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 14 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 15 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 16 | If you are elderly or disabled , your local Council of Voluntary Service should be able to provide you with willing volunteers to come and decorate for you . |
| 17 | If there is a delay of over 2 hours at the start of your journey from the U.K. we will do our best to provide you with light refreshments . |
| 18 | We have enclosed a Club Europe Drive brochure to provide you with full details . |
| 19 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 20 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 21 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 22 | Some horses also like to tease us , to irritate us with trivial annoyances — and especially in front of an audience . |
| 23 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 24 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 25 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 26 | ‘ We are doing our best to replace them with good units , ’ King says . |
| 27 | Iran gave the impression that it believed Iraq was planning to replace them with single-buoy moorings ( SBMs ) , a subject on which rumour had been rife since 1980 . |
| 28 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 29 | And it was a , a fabulous tribute to his personality , and the , the sharpness of his mind , that he was able to get , at one time , Dulles on the one hand and Khrushchev on the other , to answer him with open letters in a debate upon this issue . |
| 30 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |