Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later took these clients with him to Sheppards ( Stockbrokers ) where they dealt with him on a much larger level . |
| 2 | The wind whipped droplets of condensation into his face , where they mingled with his tears . |
| 3 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 4 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 5 | The baler was washed forward into the bow so they baled with their berets , taking turns to paddle and resisting the temptation to lean forward and clout the porpoises darting at the bow . |
| 6 | Both mother and daughter looked as if they agreed with him but Mercer , smiling round clenched molars , said with surprising bitterness , ‘ You will do what I ask or accept the consequences . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 8 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 9 | The Ramblers ' Association would get more progress if they worked with us all the time . |
| 10 | Fleury , too , had grown stout and perhaps rather opinionated ; he and Louise had a number of children whom Fleury was inclined to hector with his views , showing extreme displeasure if they disagreed with him . |
| 11 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 12 | In this case mobility between firms is constrained because labour may have to sacrifice the growth in earnings they could expect if they remained with their current firm . |
| 13 | Labour movements embraced nationalist economics ‘ because they coincided with their most urgent interests . ’ |
| 14 | Of course , it was forbidden to form parties : but in Ajdabiya and Kufra people did not consider giving support to another , voting for him , because they agreed with his ideas . |
| 15 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 16 | They had probably spiked it while they checked with their lawyers . |
| 17 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 18 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 19 | He started by going to unofficial advisers and seeing whether they agreed with his official adviser . |
| 20 | It is a sign of Marx 's and Engels 's intellectual courage that they put these laws to the test by seeing whether they accorded with what was then known about early cultures . |
| 21 | ‘ Local derbies , I luv 'em , ’ chuckled Big Mal , who once lowered Manchester United 's flag to half mast before they clashed with his Manchester City team at Maine Road . |
| 22 | Two men were ploughing on one of the hills , and though they escaped with their lives , their ploughs were destroyed and three of their horses struck dead . |
| 23 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 24 | As soon as they finished with their books the two girls made him tea . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I 'm damned well not ! ’ she denied furiously , her eyes wide and startled as they clashed with his . |
| 26 | As they sat with their drinks on the terrace , Lunia noticed a handsome young man in a velvet suit wearing a large black felt hat and a red scarf crossing the Boulevard Montparnasse . |
| 27 | Jenna looked across at him as they sat with their coffee in the sitting-room that still bore the signs of her mother 's impeccable taste . |
| 28 | Mr Parry and his wife Wendy , 35 , seemed composed as they stood with their other children Dominic , 14 , and Abigail , 11 . |
| 29 | When he appeared , riding , and the sun flashed on the gold , his own men turned as they stood with their spears and called to him , ‘ Albanaid ! ’ |
| 30 | They had ‘ as much in common with members of their own class in other European states in their interests and assumptions as they did with their feudal inferiors ’ . |