Example sentences of "with [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 2 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 3 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 4 | Well , we just got talking and she agreed to have dinner with me the following night . |
| 5 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 6 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 7 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 8 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 10 | Were you having trouble with them the other night ? |
| 11 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Wars became ever more expensive , and with them the national debt rose to heights that to contemporaries seemed awesome ( see Table 9.2 ) . |
| 13 | I don " t speak Czech ( p. 72 ) ) reverse the Politeness Principle by emphasising his disagreement and carry with them the clear implication that he believes the captain to be lying . |
| 14 | The conditions of the farm worker , and with them the everyday life of the village community , could vary considerably across the country according to the distribution of landholding , the nature of agricultural production and the pattern of settlement . |
| 15 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 16 | The new recruits to Labour did not , however , bring with them the institutional structures of Nonconformity which played so important a part in both Liberal and peace politics before 1914 . |
| 17 | They took with them the 16-year-old Jane as interpreter . |
| 18 | Certainly , to repeat , the terms " subject " and " object " are not to be taken as carrying with them the Cartesian theory of a subject in the sense of a simple indivisible mental substance whose identity over time is primitive and irreducible . |
| 19 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 20 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 21 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 22 | This , and the deliberate decision of those who drafted the Hague Convention to include no definition of the phrase in that context , led Lord Goff , with whom the other members of the House agreed , to reject any ‘ international ’ meaning . |
| 23 | My Lord the first er issue is as a matter of English law and the English law position , my Lord in making my main submissions to your Lordship I took you to the case , we looked at the statements of er the House of Lords and er Lord in particular with whom the other Law Lords agreed , my Lord do you wish to go back to the fact again ? |
| 24 | Even if individually neither their lives nor their property were secure , collectively they constituted an interest group with whom the Grand Prince was intimately bound up . |
| 25 | He was not alone in his scepticism about the size of the pool of ability , the optimism of 1963 , or the soundness of a Conservative Minister with whom the Labour party found it difficult to quarrel . |
| 26 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 27 | John Barry and Tim White and Professor Gordon Dunlop ) with whom the successful applicants are expected to interact on a daily basis . |
| 28 | As a member of the ‘ shadow board ’ of the Football League , with whom the Professional Footballers ' Association have no quarrel , propriety demands that I do not take sides in the dispute between the Premier League and the PFA . |
| 29 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 30 | Viscount Dilhorne , with whom the whole House concurred , dealt with the matter with extreme brevity . |