Example sentences of "with [pron] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had with me a good friend who knows the region well — he lives there — and he was following our route on a map . |
| 2 | This is not with me a photographic thing . |
| 3 | I used to believe in the Protestant work ethic , in the virtue of a regular twelve-hour working day , deluding myself that this was the only way to achieve excellent business results , kidding myself that I actually enjoyed going home exhausted on Friday evening , taking with me a whole bundle of weekend paperwork . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 'll just bear with me a few minutes , gentlemen , I 'll just nip along to the car , if I may . |
| 5 | Such an argument misses the point that nuclear reactors bring with them a great deal of technical information , and experience . |
| 6 | But I did run away and , I suppose , all refugees carry with them a small burden of guilt . |
| 7 | ‘ They seem to have brought with them a complete breakdown in the moral order . |
| 8 | They carry with them a distinct smell of metal , tar and petrol . |
| 9 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 10 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 12 | Having 2 ex-county players on the team has also been very worthwhile with helpful tips being tried out every week ( as the Institute chaps will tell you , comparing our game with them a few weeks ago and the Charity Match just played — sorry David what was the score … ? ) |
| 13 | Some , though , are gleaming white cruise ships , and when these festive vessels pass , their pennants flying and radars twirling , with tremors of vapour emerging from their funnels , they seem to bring with them a paradoxical frisson of antiquity . |
| 14 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 15 | He began developing his own contacts with the Chinese government , and advocating the view that Hong Kong should learn to accept China as a ‘ protector and friend ’ with whom a deepening relationship was both desirable and necessary . |
| 16 | In the UK the water scene has been dominated by our good relationship with South West Water , with whom a sole supplier arrangement is now in place . |
| 17 | Warwick Castle gets about forty percent of visitors from overseas with whom a large proportion are Americans , and er I suggest that the increase in Americans this year will be quite good compared with figures for last year , so we do benefit er I might even mention that in Holland er over half the visitors Exhibition in Amsterdam are not Dutch , many of them are Germans , but there are also Americans and of course other overseas visitors there . |
| 18 | This is the logical consequence of bringing the building industry to full productivity ; otherwise , the absurd situation is reached that housing , unlike any other normal necessity of life , is something with which a substantial proportion of the population can never be provided at a decent standard without subsidy . |
| 19 | W. T. Stead 's sensational exposé of the latter in his articles on ‘ The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ’ generated a sense of outrage with which a wide spectrum of public opinion found itself in sympathy . |
| 20 | Awareness of these characteristics of language can help in the design of a generic spatial language with which a wide variety of users can interact with a spatial database . |
| 21 | The material with which a major museum has to deal , both within its own collections and on offer to it , will have come from a wide variety of sources . |
| 22 | Whereas the Treaty of Rome and the Single European Act both appeared to be at least chiefly concerned with trade and economic cooperation , the Treaty on European Union is involved with almost every policy with which a national government could concern itself . |
| 23 | Third , the less ‘ verbish ’ the verbs in the poem are , the greater their lexical power tends to be , lexical power being in inverse proportion to the number of different terms with which a given term is habitually associated ( ‘ the fewer the items with which a given item is likely to collocate … the more ‘ powerful ’ it is said to be ’ ) ; and the more powerful , and less ‘ verbish ’ , words are ‘ items of violence ’ , such as ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 24 | Third , the less ‘ verbish ’ the verbs in the poem are , the greater their lexical power tends to be , lexical power being in inverse proportion to the number of different terms with which a given term is habitually associated ( ‘ the fewer the items with which a given item is likely to collocate … the more ‘ powerful ’ it is said to be ’ ) ; and the more powerful , and less ‘ verbish ’ , words are ‘ items of violence ’ , such as ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 25 | The ease with which a probabilistic analyser can be created contrasts sharply with the immense amount of work required to create a comprehensive generative grammar . |
| 26 | We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery . |
| 27 | Finally , take with you a spare copy of the ‘ particulars , from the estate agent , to check his details line by line , measure by measure , as these are nearly always inaccurate or incomplete . |
| 28 | I agree with you a hundred percent we should try to overcome the problem of lending of that overcome the problems overcome the problems that evolve |
| 29 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 30 | Take with you a fresh shoot from the same kind of plant which has no aphids on it . |