Example sentences of "with [noun] [verb] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had strong enclosing walls , round corner towers with firing slits from which defenders could command the outer walls . |
| 2 | When not so transfixed , they often sit at tables , strewn with computer outputs over which they pore like possessed students of a cabbalistic text . |
| 3 | Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ? |
| 4 | I suspect that the current hostility towards modernism has to do with feeling reassured by what is old ( we tend to value the patina of age regardless of quality ) — and the sense of stability that this lends to our institutions . |
| 5 | She saw the bar , with its gleaming mahogany counter and polished brass fittings ; the enamel levers of the soda pumps , the array of ratafias and rosolio liqueurs behind the bar , and the new wooden chest , like a coffer with brass hasps in which the aluminium pails of pastel ices were kept in ice brought by dripping cart from the icehouse in the harbour at Dolmetta , where the fish were packed and then chipped off the block . |
| 6 | On July 8 , European Community ( EC ) representatives signed an agreement with Husseini according to which the EC granted US$35,000,000 as the first instalment of a $54,000,000 grant for the construction of 1,200 housing units in the occupied territories . |
| 7 | Beachcombing soaks up the hours , punctuated with crisp swims during which my scarf unknots itself from my breasts and drifts out to sea like a directionless jelly fish . |
| 8 | To catch the self-employed tax-dodger , there could be a ‘ profession tax ’ — a flat rate paid by every member of the profession in question , with additions according to which income bracket the ruling body of the profession reckons he belongs to . |
| 9 | The result was the duck decoy , consisting of an artificial pool with pipes leading off which were covered with nets and lined with screens . |
| 10 | These , taken together with inferences drawn from what the rebels did , go some way to explaining why the revolt took place . |
| 11 | But it does mean that , faced with options ranging from what is merely arguably right to what the auditors believe to be best , their critics are convinced that auditors will in practice settle for the arguably right if that is what the directors prefer . |