Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [pron] [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) .
2 Then the young man said , ‘ It depends what you mean by bereavements ’ , and went on to describe his conflict about a woman with whom he was in love but not yet ready to marry .
3 We shall find that there is a very good general rule that , while adjectives may qualify verbs or verb phrases as well as nouns , the property which an adjective designates is understood to apply to the entity of that noun phrase with which it is in construction most directly ( but not necessarily immediately , as we see in Chapters 3 to 9 ) .
4 I called Joy , Joy because when Philip falls in love with her he is in pursuit of what he calls ‘ intensity of experience ’ , an essentially Romantic quest with a capital R , and joy is a key word in Romanticism .
5 This states that the mass ( m ) of a gas dissolved in a given volume of liquid with which it is in equilibrium is proportional to the pressure ( p ) of the gas at a particular temperature .
6 Each little bit of copper and the zinc with which it is in contact act like a small battery : minute electrical currents are produced , with the water acting as the connection between the copper and zinc to complete the ‘ circuit ’ .
7 They are those of a man working imaginatively within the framework of an ideological system with which he is in entire agreement .
8 He had never married and had no family or , at least , no family with whom he was in touch .
9 But presented with the royal ultimatum to spend the festive season in the bosom of a family with which she is at war , Diana made her heartbreak decision .
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