Example sentences of "to [noun sg] with [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , not surprisingly , Mr Luchinsky flatly rejected any suggestion of changing Moldavia 's frontiers — an allusion to unity with Romania . |
| 2 | ‘ I was counting on a serious heart to heart with Charles 's CO . |
| 3 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 4 | Lucien was so disturbed by the dream that the following morning he considered staying in his room and not going down to the exercise court to practice with Resenence . |
| 5 | Also the proportion of rods to spinelets varies to the exclusion of spinelets which would lead to confusion with O. densa were it not for the different number of arm spines , the proximal spines forming a fan and the raised oral frame . |
| 6 | So can you tell me looking at those seven could you tell me which you would say immediately comes to mind with Mother Theresa ? |
| 7 | She went to tea with Beatrice and found the atmosphere almost as dramatic : ‘ At B. 's this afternoon there arrived du monde including a very lovely young woman , married and curious — and blonde — and passionate . |
| 8 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 9 | There you are , taking the children out to tea with Ann Keat … ’ |
| 10 | He was , in a sense , a member of the family : he would entertain spinsters to tea with Enid Faber and in the evening might read aloud from The Pickwick Papers or another suitable volume . |
| 11 | " I 'm going to tea with Mrs. Mott , " she added , and then glancing at Jenny , " Mr. Matthew 's away for the week-end , so do n't fret about seeing him . " |
| 12 | As for me , I liked going to tea with Mr and Mrs Wilson . |
| 13 | Last June vote-hungry Mr Clinton promised to side with California . |
| 14 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 15 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 16 | It was eager to play down its close links with Israel in order not to alienate potential Arab supporters , and made it clear that any Israeli military involvement in the crisis would cause a radical shift in the already unstable Arab ranks , possibly leading a number of those currently allied to the USA to side with Iraq . |
| 17 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 18 | Sources within Coopers suggest that Deloitte in Australia will shortly announce it is to side with Coopers , and the firm is confident that the Canadians will follow suit . |
| 19 | The result was a further outbreak of hostilities between the three sons of Ferdinand , with Sancho pretending to side with Garcia against Alfonso , while really waiting his moment to annex Galicia and Portugal . |
| 20 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 21 | MALCOLM ALLISON returned to football with Bristol Rovers yesterday , an old age pensioner answering his latest SOS . |
| 22 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 23 | whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ; |
| 24 | Mackie was out to lunch with Dee-Dee . |
| 25 | At Châlons-sur-Marne , Pétain stopped to lunch with Général Gouraud , the one-armed hero . |
| 26 | ‘ A request to subscribe to a building to re-house some people in the Gorbals , an invitation — which of course I shall refuse — to lunch with Lady Laughlan . |
| 27 | One of those days was last Friday , when I had a terrible time going to lunch with Herman to meet Ivy . |
| 28 | Now , if she had gone to lunch with Dorothea Shottery after all , there would have been three people to talk to . |
| 29 | ‘ Darling , this is Miss Huntley , who was expecting to lunch with Angela today . |
| 30 | Tell him he does n't have to go to confession with Helena ! |