Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 2 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 3 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 4 | Government reports , social legislation , anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work . |
| 5 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 6 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 7 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 8 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Flittern said , folding himself onto the bench beside her , ‘ we could perhaps tempt you with a bottled rogue amorous thought , distilled at the first quarter of the moon , and salted with a spark of starlight . |
| 9 | If the pain which he had whenever he had anything the matter with his finger had always been a throbbing pain , and the pain caused by anything the matter with any other part of his body had never been a throbbing pain , then now , on experiencing a throbbing pain , he would naturally associate it with his finger . |
| 10 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 11 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 12 | Divorce is common and easily obtained by men : women can only achieve it with difficulty . |
| 13 | Better do it with your on Saturday . |
| 14 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 15 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 16 | I think we should perhaps provide you with some extra lessons . ’ |
| 17 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 18 | He argues that reality resembles a cinematographic film , a ceaseless unwinding an moving , but the intellect is so constituted , that it can only provide us with stills , separate and immobile , from that motion film which is reality . |
| 19 | Or I 'd better provide you with some paper . |
| 20 | ‘ I think I 'd better provide you with toasted teacakes as well , ’ said Amiss sympathetically . |
| 21 | If I go I will only take you with me and this bed is already warm . |
| 22 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 23 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |
| 24 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 25 | He put out his hand towards her now but did n't touch her , saying , ‘ Do n't faint ; it wo n't help you any because I 'll only revive you with a jug of cold water and make you listen to the finish . |
| 26 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd rather do it with sheep . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd just rather do it with men . |
| 29 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 30 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |