Example sentences of "with a [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | If a piece of glass is dipped in water , the drops of liquid stay on the surface for several seconds ; with a diamond they run off instantly , leaving the stone dry as a bone . |
2 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
3 | you know , there 's no , whereas when you do it with a chisel it 's a bit of a , inverted commas |
4 | Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love . |
5 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
6 | ‘ Personal in what way ? ’ she queried gently , fixing Virginia with a look it was hard to evade . |
7 | ‘ If you want to create a certain density with a guitar you record one instrument with three mics and you get this wonderfull stereo spread . |
8 | Even with a moon I 'd need some sort of guidance . ’ |
9 | She yanked her seatbelt free then gave a squeak of protest as Penry pulled her into his arms to kiss her with a ferocity she fought against at first . |
10 | I do not intend , now or ever , to become involved in any controversy about downwind turns , but when making downwind turns with a helicopter you should ensure that your groundspeed downwind is faster than the wind speed ( Fig. 5.12 ) . |
11 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
12 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack . |
13 | A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life . |
14 | No that consideration , I think , you know if he did n't kill himself with a chainsaw he 'd probably be alright with the shredder . |
15 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |
16 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
17 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
18 | There was a gang of us , but I mean er if one of us got involved with a fight it was him and him . |
19 | I love jacket potatoes , then I wo n't , with a jacket I do n't like the jacket . |
20 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
21 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
22 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
23 | ‘ I 'm taking you in my arms , ’ he returned with a calmness she could only envy from the bottom of her heart . |
24 | Excusing himself with a bow he made his way out to find Richie waiting behind the stand . |
25 | With a nod she sent him forward to accept his accolades . |
26 | With a nod he 'd gone , closing the door quietly behind him . |
27 | With a nod he disappeared forward . |
28 | Ironically , when , at the very end of the war , Prague was again under siege , this time by the protestant forces , the by-now Catholic citizens of Prague defended the bridge for three months with a zeal they had failed to show in 1620 . |
29 | So , yes , with a neighbour he would have known precisely what to do . |
30 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |