Example sentences of "they [vb base] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They puke with great accuracy and surprising range .
2 the position of the development of the productive forces is closely related to that of reproduction : the growth of the forces of production corresponds with expanded reproduction , when static they correspond with simple reproduction and their decline is expressed in the fact that an ever diminishing share of the periodically consumed products is replaced .
3 The position of the development of the productive forces is closely related to that of reproduction : the growth of the productive forces corresponds with expanded reproduction , when static they correspond with simple reproduction and their decline is expressed in the fact that an ever-diminishing share of periodically consumed products is replaced .
4 The ionizing radiations to which people are subject are of varying types and , although they interact with living matter in a similar way , different types of radiation differ in their effectiveness in damaging a biological system .
5 It seems obvious that they are relevant but how precisely they interact with present behaviour is unclear .
6 Denied political and civil space in most Arab society by undemocratic regimes of various kinds , many people make of such an image a confused by powerful instrument of criticism of their own rulers , never mind the powers which they associate with colonial history and contemporary world dominance .
7 Ask anyone familiar with the City what they associate with corporate finance and like as not you will be told ‘ red braces , long lunches , big mouths , broad concepts ’ .
8 ‘ The first time people see it they react with goggle-eyed wonder .
9 But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows .
10 They relax with sexy manga or violent computer games .
11 When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge .
12 They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure .
13 They emerge with large silicaplast containers , all exactly alike .
14 They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt .
15 After all , they deal with endless different-shaped heads all day long , coiffuring styles that emphasise a client 's best features .
16 Even when they deal with upper/middle class offenders , as in Columbo , it is not because they have committed corporate crimes , but because they have committed the stereotypical conventional crime of murder .
17 They liaise with secondary school careers teachers , and also with the employers in an area .
18 Fairies often bestow them as gifts upon favoured mortals for , when they mate with mortal stock , the offspring will enjoy superior stamina and strength .
19 They would apply to a world in which no production is possible at all — a pure exchange economy — and they apply with equal validity to a world in which nature-given raw materials and labor are converted through production into consumer goods .
20 They respond with real shock to the dreadful moment near the close ( band 5 , starting at 14 ‘ 03 ’ ) when Schubert moves the music softly through a series of appalled discords , before driving matters home .
21 It confirms their arguments by showing us a wealth of British paintings and prints , and allows the ‘ victims ’ — in the form of contemporary artists from the Lebanon , India , Iran and Iraq — to answer back , which they do with uncomfortable success .
22 As for the survivors , they leave with thickened skin and renewed determination .
23 They play with good humour , their identical pigtails bouncing on their backs .
24 And they increase with citational distance from the original review ( Parlee 1975 , Grady 1981 ) .
25 They come with built-in messaging capabilities for exchanging electronic mail and fax messages .
26 They come with high density 3½ 1.44Mb floppy disc drive and 40Mb fast access hard drive .
27 Greatswords are armed with a huge double-handed sword — or greatsword — which they swing with devastating effect .
28 They swing with considerable grace from branch to branch using their hook-like hands alternately , a mode of locomotion known as brachiation .
29 The view that the attitudes of Arab states are irrelevant to future security arrangements unless they coincide with Western prejudice — has been reinforced by the destruction of the Arab League early last August .
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