Example sentences of "[vb past] with [pron] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 2 | She remembered the way the midwife had bent her knee so that Carolyn 's calf pressed against her thigh , and held it pinned with her own bare arm . |
| 3 | Out of the gloom of that stone vault things glowed and twinkled with their own wondrous light . |
| 4 | Each one glowed with its own prismatic brilliance and each one was soaked in pure , living colour , in rainbow light , in fluid iridescence . |
| 5 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 6 | Although the uncompromising aggressiveness and sectarian mentality of the PCF coincided with his own emotional state at that time , Nizan 's petty-bourgeois origins , his accomplished bourgeois educational track record inevitably worked to his disadvantage in a party obsessively preoccupied with a working-class/proletarian ethic . |
| 7 | When BMK joined the Stoddard Group in 1992 it brought with it another large chunk of Stoddard 's carpet manufacturing history . |
| 8 | She had with her some French brandy , purchased from a Cawsand smuggler 's wife ; she rubbed this on the inert face of the girl , then forced a little into her mouth . |
| 9 | But thoughts of Edith stayed with him all that evening . |
| 10 | One week of Michael 's month in hospital , Shanti and Chris were away on holiday , but Sara stayed with me all that week . |
| 11 | Soon after Michaelmas , however , Bruce descended with his own considerable force into England , defeated the king at Blackhowe Moor ( near Rievaulx abbey ) and almost captured him in Byland abbey , which along with Rievaulx was then sacked . |
| 12 | His passion for training and dedication of the overt kind has lifted a demoralised Test team up from its knees , always bracketed with his own phenomenal contribution with the bat . |