Example sentences of "[pron] with [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol became involved with the group because she knew someone with Leukaemia and wanted to help . |
| 2 | The only thing that will make them change their attitudes will be knowing someone with AIDS and watching them decline . |
| 3 | First we must once again concern ourselves with method and examine two assumptions which Engels took over from Morgan concerning the significance of kinship terms . |
| 4 | Indeed , he is said to have been beside himself with rage and looking to pick a violent quarrel with anyone who happened along . |
| 5 | According to legend , England was once infested with cockatrices , until a knight dressed himself with mirrors and walked the countryside thus attired . |
| 6 | Take particular trouble with any which might present you with difficulties and have a credible reply worked out to sidestep -problem areas . |
| 7 | Valda having provided the introduction , I was of course quite delighted to try and help you with names and contacts the other day on the telephone , and note that you will supply me with a strictly personal and confidential copy at the conclusion of your endeavours and I appreciate this VERY much ! |
| 8 | She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii . |
| 9 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 10 | I can remember Rachel looking at me with scorn and saying , Mummy , you must be mad , in this heat ! '' However , if was one of our own small fighter planes , and we rushed across to see it land . |
| 11 | You often put things like ar er like er dining chairs which have got awkward-shaped backs up there , cover them with wrappers and place them there . |
| 12 | As soon as possible , he was on his own again , moving from place to place , sleeping rough in barns , in caves , or in the open , and depending on the support and generosity of the common people for succour and sustenance , repaying them with prayer and preaching . |
| 13 | I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them , and I will make of you ’ ( that is Moses ) ‘ a nation greater and mightier than they . ’ |
| 14 | He worked closely with Philip , one raising rarities and the other capturing them with pencil and brush at the moment of their greatest beauty . |
| 15 | They feed them with crumbs and make friends with them . ’ |
| 16 | The cost of chartering 15 Hercules aircraft , filling them with food and organising distribution on the ground is £6.6 million over three weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’ |
| 18 | Because er , I used to serve them with coal and Miss her name was and er er th there was erm a sweet shop about tow by that fish shop which was er , er a fish shop even in those days , fish and chip shop even in those days . |
| 19 | ( A sound like the mindless drone of bees ; the sound whispered to Chesarynth and she strained her perceptions to hear its subtext : like bees they 'll sting unless you sate them with security and dull the thoughts from their minds . ) |
| 20 | On occasion the underlying philosophy was extremely crude , recommending that ‘ if you provided them with footballs and made them kick footballs , they would not be so inclined to kick policemen in the street ’ . |
| 21 | Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair . |
| 22 | Going over to the little cupboard above an old porcelain sink , she promptly emptied it of glasses , filled each one with water and pulled a tray out from underneath the sink . |
| 23 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 24 | She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza . |
| 25 | We feed him 8 or 9 times a day and then we have to help him with physiotherapy and bathe him . |
| 26 | They played chess and bezique and silly paper games , Alexandra attempted sketches of him which convulsed him with laughter and read comic poems to him . |
| 27 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 28 | She ignored him with difficulty and threaded a length of Size C Tubigrip on to the frame and then up over his ankle . |
| 29 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 30 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |