Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns . |
| 2 | The society will consider carrying out a survey of solicitors ' charges for conveyancing to compare them with those of competitors here and with professions in other countries . |
| 3 | ‘ I go to many stately homes and museums but the library is what really supplies me with most of the things I get , ’ said Mrs Lamport , who started with the Dictionary of National Biography , Burke 's Peerage , and other books on notable families . |
| 4 | So I er carried on with what they found me with this in the brew house and then er where did I go from there ? |
| 5 | He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation . |
| 6 | Such passages did little damage , however , compared with those in which again and again he would use these occasions to exalt the status of the King by equating it with that of the kings of Israel . |
| 7 | These survivors , and their many descendants , provide us with one of the most versatile of tree fruits . |
| 8 | The huge conglomerates that assemble on such occasions provide us with some of the greatest spectacles in the animal world . |
| 9 | Last December they were instrumental in getting rid of Mr Gaidar and replacing him with one of those industrialists . |
| 10 | You must have seen her with one of them . |
| 11 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 12 | It 's a well-designed demo , which almost leaves the screen empty , filling it with some of the best routines around . |
| 13 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
| 14 | Conversation can also provide them with one of the most effective means for trying out ideas and modifying them in the light of the feedback received . |
| 15 | If you do n't want to steer the craft yourself , Mike and Lindy will provide you with one of their own boatmen . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to ask you questions , Madeleine , and every time you answer no , I shall adorn you with one of these pegs . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've had it with all of you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 19 | Pleonasm Kick it with one of your feet . |
| 20 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 21 | What we 'd like you to do and to consider , and I 'll come on to replacement soon , is to consider supplementing it with one of these types of locks . |
| 22 | Harold Evans clearly had seen the List and regaled me with some of its more unlikely names . |
| 23 | Try to put them with one of their friends . |
| 24 | He threatened me with this throughout the examination period and until the day I actually left home . |
| 25 | Taken as a whole , it appears relatively standardized , particularly if one compares it with that in the USA . |
| 26 | Travis was quick to deny it with one of his charming smiles . |
| 27 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 28 | Ali is not up to repartee these days , never was , really , unless he was in the mood , and them he 'd fade you with one of his standard lines ( ‘ You no as dumb as you look ’ ) . |
| 29 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 30 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |