Example sentences of "with [pron] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Rather ignominiously , it was used as part payment of a bad debt to a coachbuilder , Robert Jeffrey of Grays Inn Road , with whom it remained neglected and almost forgotten until purchased by Madame Tussaud in 1842 for the princely sum of £52 . |
2 | The dog , as might be expected , looks in both directions — towards the grave , whose total incapacity to understand rights it shares , yet also towards the human being with whom it has appetitive instincts in common . |
3 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
4 | Characteristically it becomes difficult , but also necessary , in just this market phase , to distinguish this form of production from others with which it had analogous economic relations . |
5 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
6 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
7 | Britain had its supporters outside the Six , notably the Nordic states with which it held regular meetings within Uniscan to discuss and coordinate views on European developments and their possible implications . |
8 | The work in the Netherlands is therefore considered here with that of the Germanic Baltic group with which it has much in common . |
9 | The late Sir Peter Scott was the founder , in 1961 ( WWF is the only one of the Big Three which has British origins ) , and international headquarters are in Gland , Switzerland , in the same building as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) , with which it has close relations ( and which , in turn , is close to UNEP ) . |
10 | It is not clear whether the date of composition of The Epistle of Mixed Life precedes or follows Scale 1 with which it has close affinities . |
11 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
12 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |