Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We needed to identify an enterprise which was more stable and yet would fit in with my experience as a farmer , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 2 | Also Whittaker , the English master , must have suffered with my transposition of a simple sentence in basic english , but nevertheless seemed to enthuse over anything I did in the manner of an essay . |
| 3 | Lying on the bed with my hair in a mess and holding my tummy . |
| 4 | I remained at the roadside for a few minutes , sitting on the grass with my back to a low wall . |
| 5 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 6 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 7 | I wheezed and spluttered and whooped and finally overdid it totally and ended up by subsiding with my chin in a snow-drift in an attitude of Muslim prayer . |
| 8 | Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney . |
| 9 | I 'm off with my family for a week 's holiday in Cornwall and Jenny is hoping to take advantage of my absence to get some rest so the office will be ‘ manned ’ all next week by Heidi , though Jenny will be around at home . |
| 10 | I was living with my mam in a council house . |
| 11 | I was with my grandad at a lake in Gloucestershire , night-fishing for tench by the light of a tilley lamp . |
| 12 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 13 | Mum was staying in Geneva with my brother for a week . |
| 14 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 15 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 16 | What would be the point of my disagreeing with my husband at a board meeting ? |
| 17 | At the same time , I worked with my colleague on a book dealing with literary stylistics : Style in Fiction : A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose ( Longman English Language Series , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | I first talked about the war with my father on a train outside Bognor Regis , when I asked him how many Germans he had killed . |
| 19 | Ahmed : When I joined the organization in March 1983 I had the impression that though my colleagues could deal with my ethnicity as a factor in our relationship , they were rather baffled about how to incorporate my sexuality into our work relationship . |
| 20 | After my experience with the Apricot Sunsets I was playing safe with my digestion for a while . |
| 21 | As you say , it 's my wedding day tomorrow , I do n't want to arrive at the altar with my face in a mess . ’ |
| 22 | Bowler-hatted gateman Eric Petheridge failed to recognise the princess , who was wearing sunglasses and no immediately noticeable formal identification or entry badge , when she arrived with her detective after a car park lunch with friends . |
| 23 | It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost . |
| 24 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 25 | Tall pretty girl with her hair in a plait today , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 27 | She went about with her head at a slight angle and her eyes permanently narrowed , to avoid the smoke . |
| 28 | ‘ I found her lying with her head on a little chair and half lying on the floor . |
| 29 | He turned and sped westward , he did not know who stood , bowed with her head o'er a musket , drenched with her own blood . |
| 30 | Foggerty , curious , asked Sam whether it was true that Nutty was continuing with her captaincy of a tetrathlon team : ‘ That fellow called with those pistols and told the head he 'd come to train them or something . |