Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red Indian , ‘ Chief of the Choctaw tribe ’ , an educated man with whom CD had a conversation aboard a steamboat en route for Louisville ( Kentucky ) . |
| 2 | In the hands of a writer as skilled in her craft as Nadine Gordimer , with her ability to shape a character and her eye for detail , the tracing of a girl 's development through adolescence and early adulthood might be enough of a story in itself . |
| 3 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 4 | ( Trudie being Miss Prescott , who had just , with her partner opened a residential home a couple of hundred yards away , and is a nurse . ) |
| 5 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed being forced to take part in a ceremony , and slumped on the floor , with her mother holding a syringe and a key . |
| 6 | She has also sketched herself slumped on the floor , with her mother brandishing a syringe and a key . |
| 7 | With her attempt to establish a company at the Imperial Theatre , Westminster , having failed , Lillie resumed touring . |
| 8 | The company may enter into a formal agreement with its work-force to transfer a substantial percentage of gross profits each year to a trust fund . |
| 9 | THE dying Swan Hunter shipyard has been dealt another crushing blow with its failure to win a key £50m order . |
| 10 | The initial step for the program is to load in this file and store the translation of the original tag with its replacement using a NAWK associative array . |
| 11 | North American house wrens favour sloughed snake skins and the eider duck grows special downy feathers on its own breast which it plucks off with its beak to produce a soft and warming blanket that none of man 's synthetic materials can equal . |
| 12 | Their ability to contain or manage the conflict when this has threatened to engulf them as well as the regional contestants , for example in 1967 and 1973 , contrasts sharply with their inability to transact a peace process which transcends their own rivalry in order to resolve the conflict . |
| 13 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 14 | Primary prevention of this type is not really preventive ; it offers no answer to the parents at risk other than they do not proceed with their decision to have a child . |
| 15 | You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all . |
| 16 | Their problem , however , is trying to reconcile national curriculum demands with their desire to offer a second modern language , three sciences and perhaps Latin and Greek . |
| 17 | With their pack showing a voracious appetite for running into and beyond the heart of the visitors ' defence , Moseley were able to set up positions from which Hardcastle , who invariably took the correct options throughout , and Harknett were both able to score . |
| 18 | It is also true that to wrestle with his thought demands a rethinking of the Gospel : that his students found him so witty and stimulating a teacher is understandable . |
| 19 | ‘ Er — he 's out playing golf , ’ her mother replied , and , while Leith was beginning to wonder how long it would be before her father discovered that his joint savings account with his wife had a dent in it , her mother was swiftly changing the subject . |
| 20 | IT would n't happen on this newspaper , of course , but in Washington a reporter got fed up with his editor having a go at him because his first sentences were too long . |
| 21 | Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful , toothy smile , an infectious , confidence-inspiring laugh . |
| 22 | So effortlessly in fact that he would often go off during working hours with his gun to bag a pheasant or a hare rash enough to have entered our grounds . |
| 23 | What the older Michael mostly remembered about this were the games — croquet in which the parents joined the children , tennis , a sort of squash with his brother hitting a tennis ball against a veranda wall , expeditions up the river through the Backs and then up to the village of Grantchester . |
| 24 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 25 | Condensation was streaming down the windowpanes , so he wiped one dry with his shirt-cuff to gain a sight of the day . |
| 26 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 27 | Sir , before I open the case , er after you have taken the appearances , it is my intention with your permission to make a special statement having regard to an event in the past , and to then make submissions . |
| 28 | Every morning the chemicals in your anti-perspirant react with your sweat to form a plug . |
| 29 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 30 | You can , however , waive your right to notice should you wish to do so , and naturally you can agree with your employer to receive a payment in lieu of notice , if that suits you both . |