Example sentences of "with [pron] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 2 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 3 | My friend is a single mother who lives with her two children on a local council estate . |
| 4 | A single parent living with her four children on this Sunderland estate had kept a large bedroom window covered with plastic sheeting for nearly a year ; the council had n't fixed it and she did n't have the wherewithal to do it herself . |
| 5 | Again , she has a lovely touch on the greens , with her nine putts for her first-half 30 on Saturday a record on the LPGA tour . |
| 6 | They are refusing to let little Lucy stay with her 42 classmates despite medical evidence that a move could be traumatic . |
| 7 | She may deserve it , and yet the reader pities her failure with her three generations of men — her father , her husband and her son — and is sorry that her grandson will be taken from her . |
| 8 | She moved into the four-bedroom Happylands farmhouse with her three daughters before Christmas last year , after her marriage to 47-year-old Captain Ian Farquhar , a close hunting pal of the prince , ended in divorce . |
| 9 | There are many local walks , including Offa 's Dyke ( with its 168 miles of rugged footpath ) , and in a gentler vein , the 170 acres of the wooded Queenswood Country Park . |
| 10 | Now , as the taxi proceeded on its uninterrupted journey beneath a blue veil of a sky flocked with white clouds , she felt her natural curiosity nudged into wakefulness , and leaned forward to obtain a better view of the wide tree-lined road with its four carriageways for motor traffic and its two bicycle lanes , intrigued despite her earlier uninterest . |
| 11 | Dr Jaffery could still point out the faded murals which filled niches of the Drum House — pictures of Central Asian plants , he thought , put there to remind the Mughals of their TransOxianan homelands — but the painted and gilt ceiling of the audience hall has entirely disappeared , along with the awnings , the Kashmiri carpets , the solid silver railings and the magnificent Peacock Throne which , with its twelve pillars of emerald supporting a golden roof topped with two gilt peacocks ablaze with precious stones , was arguably the most dazzling seat ever constructed . |
| 12 | Richard Chauncy 's improvements were taken a step further by William Henry Chauncy , who caused the village of Edgcote with its eighteen families to be removed from his prospect sometime before 1788 . |
| 13 | Norway 's suspicions were soon set aside , and the country joined with its two neighbours in setting up a Nordic Council in 1952 . |
| 14 | From the start , naturalists agreed that the western end of the reservoir , with its nine miles of shoreline along two arms , would make an excellent nature reserve . |
| 15 | The Railway has been a part of the Donnington landscape for 51 years , with its 10 miles of railway track criss-crossing the Depot . |
| 16 | In 1849 Holford purchased the freehold of the old Dorchester House , with its 100 yards of frontage to Park Lane : he chose Lewis Vulliamy [ q.v. ] as his architect to design the Italianate palazzo he planned for the site . |
| 17 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 18 | The new structure was criticized as over-elaborate — with its three tiers of regions , areas and districts — almost as soon as it was created . |
| 19 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 20 | The group believes that its collective strength will make it second in the software queue behind only Sun Microsystems Inc with its 141,000 seats to Sun 's estimated 241,000 single-user systems . |
| 21 | So the farm is well set with its 1000 acres of arable and large dairy herd . |
| 22 | Later that evening , over the Atlantic , he heard the SOS of the SS Athenia with its 1,000 complement of women and children en route for the New World . |
| 23 | Blackpool with its seven miles of sandy beaches , spectacular autumn illuminations and 518ft high tower is only 7 miles away . |
| 24 | The 1991 Census , with its billion items of information , will benefit target marketing . |
| 25 | Anson well knew that if control of the Channel was lost all was lost and on 5 April he assured the king that his fleet , with 30 ships of the line , would by the following month outnumber the French , with their 27 warships between Brest and Rochefort . |
| 26 | Giant-killers Yeovil became the most successful non-League club in FA Cup history with their 5–2 win at Torquay , their 15th triumph over League opposition . |
| 27 | The RFU are seizing the initiative with their Fifteen Days of England Rugby campaign between September 5th and 19th , which sets out to market the game among young players and their parents everywhere . |
| 28 | The locals , inspired by three superb long-range penalties from their full back , had the satisfaction of raising the roof with their one try of the game . |
| 29 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 30 | Further excitement was Barney and Ronnie 's Moving Day : they moved with their two children from a house on the other side of the village to a house very near to us . |