Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
| 2 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 3 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 4 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 5 | However , they have asked that I provide you with the draft ( unaudited ) results for the year to 31st October , 19XX in order that you may , if you so wish , reconsider your offer . |
| 6 | Sally Curtiss , the Circle 's membership secretary , is here , so I entrusted her with the annexe key . ’ |
| 7 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
| 8 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I shared mine with an ATS girl , ’ Jane sighed . |
| 10 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 11 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 12 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 13 | I recalled how sane and healthy they were , and I contrasted them with the fiends with whom I had to deal in 1816 ! |
| 14 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 15 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 16 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 17 | B : ‘ I thought she was far too cocky but then I changed my mind and I pursued her with a vengeance . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 19 | If I hit it with the chair-back … |
| 20 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 21 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 22 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 23 | But I think we with the wet stuff we 've had going through , the chute is blocking up . |
| 24 | He hopped close to my feet and waited till I presented him with a bun all to himself , and he had hard work nibbling it and taking it along with him to his home . |
| 25 | Some some of them were never in t I well I did n't know my aunt when I met her with a hat on . |
| 26 | When I confronted her with the chapter and verse of her part in arranging for tip the press off about her visit to Mrs Bartholomew , she was adamant in her denials . |
| 27 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 28 | When I used it with a 50lb rucksack there were no sweaty damp patches . |
| 29 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |