Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] with a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finishes with a chapter on pattern calculation using a calculator for the basic block shape . |
| 2 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I know how to do housekeeping , ’ she says with a touch of irony . |
| 4 | ‘ I have had no hassle from the other women but the prison guards at Risley were awful , they kept calling me the Duchess , ’ she says with a touch of nastiness . |
| 5 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 6 | But she continues with an account of the difficulties of linking theories of ‘ race ’ , class , and gender , and of disagreements between black feminists , and with a vague plea for white women , who can not share black female experience , to nevertheless ‘ identify with ’ it ( 1987 : 61 , 64 , 65 ) . |
| 7 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 8 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 9 | If there is a future beyond social democracy and state socialism , it lies with an alternative to pandering to consumerism and the status quo . |
| 10 | It concludes with a plea for an official checklist to inform assessments of the success of this feature of the reforms , together with some suggestions for inclusion . |
| 11 | It concludes with a summary of recent research into teams and team building . |
| 12 | It consists of making categorical and systematic certain distinctions made , and preferences expressed , by Eliot in his essays ; and then dismissing Pound merely because he writes with a measure of respect of certain writers ( Swinburne is one example ) on whom Eliot , the arbiter of taste , is supposed to have conclusively turned down his thumbs . |
| 13 | And if now a whole institution , as Wolverhampton Polytechnic has done and Essex Institute well might , resolves to modularise its whole course provision , it starts with a portfolio of courses which looks virtually complete . |
| 14 | It starts with a vision of a world where all is in God 's good order , where all is very beautiful and God 's delight . |
| 15 | It starts with a battle up the evil , leaning , wide crack of the Bulger ( VS 4c ) to gain ledges at the bottom right corner of the slab . |
| 16 | Marking the longest campaign of the Second World War , it starts with a review of the Fleet on 26 May , followed by five days of festivity , including a march by more than 2,000 veterans through Liverpool . |
| 17 | It starts with an overview of the legal and professional constraints on the engineer , followed by an introduction to the concepts underlying risk management , and finishes with a discussion of the implications for education and public awareness . |
| 18 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ This ’ , he says with a wave of his hand , ‘ is the Periodicals Room , that ’ , with a nod , ‘ is CBI , a universal English language bibliography , dictionary arrangement with author , title and subject entries : You must remember that the main entry is author ’ … |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ he says with a trace of irritation . |
| 21 | For his third exhibition at Bernard Jacobson , Maurice Cockrill has made ‘ The Four Seasons ’ , four oval canvases which he shows with a group of new pictures on door panels . |
| 22 | So he ends with a toast to the bridesmaids and/or Matron of Honour . |
| 23 | The last seven lines on three rhymes break the pattern of units of sense on single rhymes as the meditator signals by means of the present tense : " lufe chawnges my chere " , the possibility of transformation to a state where he can hear the melody to which love dances , and he ends with a statement of faith , " be my lufyng , I lufe may syng " . |
| 24 | It ends with a space for the respondent 's name and address , saying : ‘ Yes ! please send me details on how I can foster an orphan elephant . ’ |
| 25 | It ends with a look at uses appropriate to learning objectives at different levels . |
| 26 | It ends with a note from the bailiffs , saying that they will be around to collect compensation if the bill is not paid . |
| 27 | It closes with a reading of a series of formulae from one of his papers but even here , where the ‘ mathematicalness ’ of the performance is forced on you , the dance is more absorbing . |
| 28 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 29 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 30 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |