Example sentences of "[verb] with [pron] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 2 | But what I want you to do is gather information , this is your answers , and match what you 're doing er , what we sa provide with what you found out then . |
| 3 | News of the break-up reached some tour officials soon after the princess arrived in Whitley Bay , but she carried on staunchly chatting and laughing with everyone she met . |
| 4 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 5 | But I totally disagree with what she said in that erm yesterday I sat glued to the television most of the day , really to keep myself up to date on what was going on , erm I also have a baby but I managed to keep him occupied as well as take him out for a walk and give him his lunch and what have you . |
| 6 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 7 | Her father looked at her and nodded , which was a sure sign that he disagreed with what she had just said . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a sort of out-front version of me and I identified with what he did a lot . |
| 9 | This was chiefly because Mr Jones was absorbed with what he had read about ‘ problem children ’ being in desperate need of love and attention and at first all he wanted was professional guidance on how to give it more effectively . |
| 10 | By six o'clock , when even the tail-enders of the department had gone , Leith had swung from wanting with everything she had to hang on to her job , to be furious enough with the man who was making her sweat it out to tell him exactly what he could do with it . |
| 11 | Of course , when Mother was living with me I did n't go to the club every night . |
| 12 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 13 | POLICE are investigating a robbery at a Cleveland service station where two female assistants were threatened with what they thought was a handgun . |
| 14 | When he observes the actual performance he may find it difficult to associate what he has seen with what he had been led to expect . |
| 15 | Then if we are taxed with what we said about someone , we shall be calm for we shall know that everything we said was benevolent . |
| 16 | I do n't know , when I used to go swimming with her I did n't I did n't know . |
| 17 | When he was n't flirting with them they flirted with him in front of me . |
| 18 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 19 | He performed best when he had well-written lines and was acting with someone he respected . |
| 20 | When she had been wrestling with him she had used the foul language common among gypsies . |
| 21 | When I played with him he enacted pretend battles between warring camps of soldiers . |
| 22 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 23 | Kadhafi told a session of the GPC on Oct. 7 that security forces had clashed with what he called " an extremist Islamic group " near the town of Ajdabiya , about 725 km south-east of Tripoli , some of whom had been killed and others captured . |
| 24 | I turned with what I hoped was an innocent smile on my face . |
| 25 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 26 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 27 | Jo decided that she could work with anyone who hugged a tree . |
| 28 | Let us begin with what you found on the river bank . ’ |
| 29 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 30 | He was entrusted with what he called a ‘ secret plan ’ . |