Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand . |
| 3 | Given the availability of very fast spectroscopic techniques , using either photographic recording or pulsed lasers , we can consider working with a non-flowing sample and simply recording a spectrum at some interval after sudden generation of the species , but before its decay is complete . |
| 4 | Sorry I 've spoilt your expectations … ’ his obsidian eyes darted over her flushed face , framed in its disarray of blonde hair ‘ … though maybe , ’ he paused significantly , ‘ maybe you 'll make do with a temporary substitute ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'd just as soon make do with a packed lunch . |
| 6 | But individual speakers do have control over their own pitch , and may choose to speak with a higher than normal pitch ; this is something which is potentially of linguistic significance . |
| 7 | Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want to play with a new BMW ? ’ |
| 9 | Readers might like to experiment with a shunting locomotive — reliable progress seems possible at scale speeds as low as 2mph on clean track . |
| 10 | The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava . |
| 11 | Each grapheme is then translated into a corresponding phonemic representation on the basis of pre-established conversion rules ( each grapheme would become associated with a particular phoneme as one 's reading skills develop ) . |
| 12 | I 'd like to end with a few more general questions about you and your leisure time . |
| 13 | If you feel this makes your first attempts at pressed flower pictures rather too complicated , you can begin working with a simple picture arranged on a plain cream card and make your designs more ambitious each time . |
| 14 | According to Epting ( 1981 ) it is only through the continuous creation of new constructs that an individual can hope to deal with an ever-changing world . |
| 15 | Hurwitz says they need to go public to sell their products to large corporations who do n't want to mess with a small privately held firm . |
| 16 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 17 | But why not try experimenting with a contrasting thread ? |
| 18 | Dickens did n't have to contend with a daily Miles Kington piece , or a weekly Spitting Image , or Drop the Dead Donkey , or Week Ending . |
| 19 | During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators . |
| 20 | As a lame duck , he will even have to contend with an unruly Republican contingent in Congress , as the fight to succeed him will begin immediately . |
| 21 | You may have to remain with an unsatisfactory state of affairs through most of 1993 , which means that any planned moves will prove heavy-going or much resented . |
| 22 | The R&A 's amateurs will have to cope with a big industry , lobbying for change , and exercising the clout that money brings . |
| 23 | The müsellim would have no power to interfere with the right of the Serbs to collect taxes and , in cases where Christian subjects were being judged in the courts , the müsellim would have to sit with a Serbian knez . |
| 24 | The Environment Secretary , Chris Patten has agreed to alterations to the County 's structure plan , but it 's still not clear whether the Authority will have to proceed with a controversial scheme for a gravel pit at Finmere . |
| 25 | But I would like to mention that conflicting evidence is not always the result of a social worker being inexperienced and taken in easily by appearances when he or she should obviously have checked with an independent source . |
| 26 | ‘ David Harrison was convinced that he would have won with a clear run and while it 's hard to be definite about that , he would certainly have been placed . ’ |
| 27 | The copyist who supplied it was , to judge from other manuscripts in his handwriting , almost certainly an amateur — not the kind of musician Purcell would have trusted with an important task — and was not active until 1700 at the earliest . |
| 28 | I think he could have done with a general chapter on the French State , which would have placed Diderot more firmly in his times and made clearer the difficulties he encountered . |
| 29 | Chelmsford could certainly have done with a bigger pool of players . |
| 30 | I mean he tried the Forest defence out on the left-hand side t to start with switched the player and got young Lewis in and really Forest could have done with a better ball er sorry Leicester could have done with a better final ball from Lewis . |