Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had a short affair with my wife a long , long time ago . |
| 2 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |
| 3 | She shared with her husband a love of travel , and learned from his expertise something of the finer qualities of wine and food wliich helped her , when his illness necessitated it , to enter journalism and become the breadwinner . |
| 4 | Wrenching her wrist free , she walked back to the milking house with her mind a complete blank . |
| 5 | She found herself tracing with her finger a pale , silvery track where graffiti had been erased from the wall . |
| 6 | Impressive as Charfield Mill undoubtedly is , it pales in comparison with its neighbour a few miles away , New Mills at Kingswood , near Wotton-Under-Edge . |
| 7 | The US currency fluctuated during much of 1990 , depreciating by 8.5 per cent against the deutschmark by March ( compared with its level a year earlier ) , and appreciating by 17.5 per cent vis-a-vis the yen during the same period , and 5.5 against the pound sterling . |
| 8 | She hoped Vincent would understand , would draw consolation from the knowledge that her life had not been empty , because her love would live on , wanning with its humanity a cold and , possibly , hostile universe . |
| 9 | Western Electric 's engineers says that with their technique a tube three feet ( I metre ) long performs as well as conventional microphones twice the size . |
| 10 | Cos you know how I hang about with you lot a lot when I was younger and we used to like climbing roofs and everything , she goes you 're too immature . |
| 11 | How does he square that record with his promise a year ago today to build a country at ease with itself ? |
| 12 | William was aged 22 at this time , with his wife a year younger ; they began their married life in that same rather elegant location that Benjamin the Silversmith had chosen for his early forays into the boarding-house business : Wilmington Square , Clerkenwell . |
| 13 | He shared with his sister a dislike of the future Empress , a dislike which in his case was exacerbated by the fact that Eugénie , by producing an heir , effectively removed his hopes of succeeding to the throne . |
| 14 | Without raising his eyes from it , he wandered off , guiding with his belly a three-wheeled pram piled high with old newspapers and cardboard . |
| 15 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 16 | James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open . |
| 17 | An applicant for such a grant requires to lodge with his application a plan of the premises to which the application relates and to display a notice intimating his application at the proposed premises ( subss. ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) ) . |
| 18 | ( b ) The applicant is bound to lodge with his application a plan of the canteen and particulars of the means of access , and of the sanitary accommodation : Sched. 2 , Part I , para. 1(1) ( iii ) . |
| 19 | The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as ‘ probably working-class ’ and divert themselves by ‘ messing around with his mind a bit ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd better carry on with our conversation a little later . |