Example sentences of "they [verb] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from anything else it is self-defeating to nurture girl children , to teach them self-respect and self-defence , and then have to watch them go to war with men and boys whose ideas are left unchallenged . |
| 2 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 3 | During their stay in Woodstock they came to tea with us in our flat in the Banbury Road . |
| 4 | Apart from the alienation of some of his followers , the loyalty of many others was so tried that by 1013 they submitted to Swegen with little resistance . |
| 5 | They starved to death with the sumptuous feast laid out before them . |
| 6 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 7 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 8 | It should also be recognised that their progress with reading and writing is likely to be handicapped initially if they come to school with a restricted knowledge and experience of language . |