Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] he [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his career he continued with a series of busts of well-known personalities , such as W. E. Gladstone , Lord Suffield , and General William Booth [ q.v. ] of the Salvation Army , and appealing statuettes , such as ‘ Aphrodite ’ , ‘ The Dancer ’ , and ‘ St George and the Dragon ’ , but more of his time was taken up with monumental sculpture , such as the colossal bronze statue of the Duke of Connaught [ q.v. ] for Hong Kong , those of Queen Victoria for Allahabad and Colombo , Sir William Rose Mansfield , first Baron Sandhurst [ q.v. ] for Bombay , a Cameron highlander for Inverness , and Sir John A. MacDonald [ q.v. ] for the Canadian cities of Montreal , Hamilton , and Kingston . |
| 2 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |
| 3 | Shortly before his resignation he clashed with Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao over the country 's recently formulated economic stabilization programme . |
| 4 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 5 | He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before , spasm following spasm . |
| 6 | Early in his career he toured with Ken Campbell 's Roadshow , and still says that his times with the former Liverpool Everyman director are among the most memorable . |
| 7 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |
| 8 | From his bedroom he communicated with the rest of the world through the power of the postage stamp . |
| 9 | And elsewhere during his leave he comments with uncharacteristic bitterness : |
| 10 | During his lifetime he brushed with death so frequently he called it his ‘ friend ’ . |