Example sentences of "with the [noun] [prep] things " in BNC.

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1 With the invention of things like the spinning wheel , spinning jenny , the spinning mule , erm mechanized weaving , the Jacquard loom which wove patterns , all these helped the manufacture of cotton , the manufacture , the manu , the spinning and weaving of cloth .
2 Roxburgh said : ‘ The idea was to take Ian along to get him involved with the way of things after his long absence .
3 With with with the type of things he does .
4 In substantive terms we have dealt with the development of things since the eighteenth century .
5 Her eyes were bright with the thrill of things .
6 And erm and so I I I was familiar with the kind of things erm that we expected .
7 Its abiding concern is with the interconnectedness of things , with all the links in the social chains that bind individuals together as members of a community .
8 Why did the story have to be finished in such a bizarre way — Boy was suddenly overwhelmed with the thought of things never being allowed to end .
9 The memory of more recent things interferes with the recall of things memorized longer ago .
10 I 'm not happy with the look of things here .
11 Her eyes glowed with the remembrance of things past .
12 We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space ; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things .
13 I understand it 's passing erecting , there 's been a problem with the erection of things .
14 Her voice was shaky with stress , with the barbarity of things .
15 Yet if Eyre irritated those who desired no truck with the mystery of things , he revealed an unfashionable — though much admired — willingness to see the best in humanity .
16 Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years .
17 The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there .
18 Lawyers mainly deal with the theory of things whereas an experienced manager is concerned with practicalities .
19 Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with .
20 McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’
21 The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ .
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