Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun sg] with " in BNC.

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1 The Finns were not the most adventurous of people under any circumstances , and courting trouble with the Russians was a highly dubious enterprise .
2 It was childish , he said , to think of ousting the French from Indo-China and stemming communism with the means then at hand and , considering the size of the military and economic aid programmes that were available , the pro-American movement could not be built overnight .
3 It destroys jobs ; discourages investment ; erodes the country 's competitiveness ; and plays havoc with the Government 's accounts .
4 They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 .
5 So Kant sought by ‘ limiting knowledge to make room for faith ’ , and to connect faith with moral awareness and action .
6 The males wander over a wider area than females and make contact with those whose ranges they overlap .
7 AMES has been undertaking home visits to promote the centre and make contact with women who have become very remote from events in El Salvador .
8 He would be able to visit libraries , museums and institutions all over Britain and make contact with other numerologists .
9 Come over and I 'll wine you and dine you and make love with you for the rest of your life .
10 ‘ I was also thinking , ’ he whispered softly into her ear , ‘ that I could find a secluded spot and make love with you right now , if such a thing as a secluded spot existed in this place . ’
11 Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay .
12 And make peace with me .
13 My new companions break up the cigarettes , and make tea with the herb .
14 He has played on Panamanian nationalism to exploit resentment at US interference in Panamanian affairs and met charge with counter-charge .
15 She eyed me speculatively but I was hardening up and met glance with innocent glance .
16 Of course , that does mean keeping up your daily reading of newspapers and magazines and maintaining contact with journalists .
17 During the coming year the Student Members of Council and the Student Liaison Officer will be working to promote involvement with and membership of the Institute by a number of methods including visiting schools of architecture throughout the country and maintaining contact with student representatives .
18 Among the writings of Ruricius , Avitus and Ennodius are numerous letters of friendship , or amicitia , which were one of the traditional means of cultivating and maintaining contact with one 's peer group .
19 In Pearce 's experience it is easy for top management to become remote from the shop floor and lose contact with the centre of operations .
20 Patients need to be cautioned about not missing meals and using alcohol with discretion when receiving sulphonylureas because of the risk of precipitating hypoglycaemia .
21 ‘ Let me help you , ’ said Elizabeth to Betty , manifesting a disinclination to sit and make conversation with Lydia .
22 Please , would you come over to Club Eleusis and bring Malamute with you so I can speak to him ?
23 Casabona , of no fixed address , denies kidnapping , attempted murder and administering poison with intent on March 20 last year .
24 The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , told the jury he will direct them to acquit the man of rape and administering poison with intent to endanger life following submissions by the defence .
25 Before then , in June 1340 , Lewis of Bavaria deserted him and made peace with Philip ; in June 1341 David II returned to Scotland and renewed border raids ; James van Arteveldt began to alienate his Flemish allies ; and the French were advancing in Gascony .
26 She moved her right hand , and made contact with something which slid into her hand as though wanting to be there .
27 If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ?
28 Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess .
29 And , I mean , I like doing these ridiculous things like a song and dance routine with Roger Moore and the Australian cultural attache ( Sir Les Patterson ) .
30 Lorrimer came and stood inside the door , tall , unsmiling in his carefully buttoned white coat , and regarded Middlemass with his dark , wary eyes .
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