Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THESE youngsters clearly agree with the title of Graham Taylor 's new book ‘ Football Training Can Be Fun ’ ( Stanley Paul £6.99 ) after a session with the England manager yesterday in a London park . |
| 2 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
| 3 | A 24-year-old boutique owner in Capri alleges her daughter named Alessandra was born after a fling with the Argentine and former Naples star — banned for taking cocaine . |
| 4 | Only rarely , as in the case of Ethna the Bride , did these women ever wish to return home to their mere mortal husbands after a night with the Fairy King . |
| 5 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 6 | Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty . |
| 7 | McKim , a Wales youth player last season and new to some of the more unwelcome machinations of senior rugby , lost his temper so totally after a brush with the Cardiff prop Jeff Whitefoot that he even lashed out at Newport 's skipper , Glen George , who was trying to cool him down . |
| 8 | A generation earlier Naevius had been silenced after a conflict with the aristocratic Metelli . |
| 9 | HENRY AKINWANDE shed a tear after a draw with the raw Axel Schulz in Saturday 's vacant European heavyweight title challenge in Berlin . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old did n't play a first-team game last season after a bust-up with the then-boss Bruce Rioch but he 's eager to rebuild his career . |
| 11 | A COMPUTER expert planted a ‘ logic bomb ’ programme in his employers ' system when he left the firm after a clash with the boss . |
| 12 | Bielecki had offered the resignation of the government on Aug. 30 after a clash with the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) over the government 's economic programme . |
| 13 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 14 | He left after a dispute with the deputy professor , Charles Spooner , who may have been jealous of Mayhew 's popularity with the students . |
| 15 | After a dispute with the Chinese authorities Hart left China on leave in 1908 and never returned , although he remained titular head of the Customs Service until his death in 1911 . |
| 16 | On Monday , August 24 , after a meeting with the King in the morning , MacDonald met his Cabinet once more , at noon . |
| 17 | Jalal Talabani , leader of the Iraqi Kurdish Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , discussed border security with Turkish officials in Istanbul on July 26 [ for March meeting see p. 38116 ] , after a meeting with the regional governor of south-east Turkey , Hayri Kozakcioglu , on the previous day . |
| 18 | He said that Scottish Office management had undertaken to review procedures after a meeting with the unions . |
| 19 | After a meeting with the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , in Washington , Britain 's Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , warned that all non-humanitarian goods would be blocked from going into Serbia and Montenegro if the talks did not bring an end to the conflict . |
| 20 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 22 | 4 After an argument with the woman with whom he had been living , D drove his lorry into her car and crushed her to death . |
| 23 | FIVE young boys spent the night in hospital after an experiment with the hallucinogenic drug LSD . |
| 24 | Cookson Group , which makes specialist materials for various industries , edged forward 3p to 324p following a meeting with the Society of Investment Analysts . |
| 25 | My key word for the next three days is born here out of a conversation with the increasingly vocal and 45-degree angled Fyfe . |
| 26 | She had been perched on the seat of a tractor with the gulls flowing behind her in a slip-stream . |
| 27 | They also tell us of a field with the manor house in a ruinous condition . |
| 28 | Mr Dovaston said Magee had a tattoo on his left forearm of a heart with the letter A inside , with the names Pat and Joe underneath . |
| 29 | He has a tattoo on his left arm of a heart with the letter A inside with the names Pat and Joe underneath . |
| 30 | The basis of a structure with the pointed arch supported on piers led , over many years , to great variety in vault design . |