Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They had lost members and with them revenue both in this country and overseas .
2 We would stress that although we can advise on the pros and cons of each offer , the final decision as to whether to proceed and with whom rests ultimately with Mature Business PLC 's shareholders .
3 The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away .
4 My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to .
5 Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them .
6 The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away .
7 ‘ Now I 've got five stitches and there 's a one-inch larva covered in spines preserved in a jar with my name on in the hospital .
8 I mostly enjoyed staying with my friends away from home and I did not get homesick .
9 She can act with my puppets up on my stage .
10 Probably cos we 've had to walk with my head down with the rain all the time .
11 They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car .
12 I sat on the quay with my hands down beside me and my fingers over the edge as I put my feet in the boat , ready to get in .
13 I walked in with my hands still in my pockets .
14 Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance .
15 My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes .
16 ‘ But after watching the video , I was more pleased with my movement away from the terrific power of his left hook and uppercut . ’
17 ‘ I do n't really know what I 'll do when I pack up , but I 'll quite probably end up with my tools back in Hartlepool .
18 I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor .
19 ‘ They stayed with my father right through the war .
20 With my father away at the war , she had been forced to leave her home and became a refugee in a village in Slovenia near Ljubljana .
21 He suggested , ‘ with my tongue heavily in my cheek , ’ that family doctors should be subject to a parallel system in which independent assessors would move into a GP practice and interview patients about the efficiency of correspondence , with marks from fellow doctors on the reliability of diagnoses .
22 I forget what it was that distracted me for a moment , but as I delayed , the water bounced the boat up and down and then straight against the quay , with my finger in between .
23 And a strange sight it was , this tiny dark-hared person sitting there with her feet nowhere near touching the floor , totally absorbed in the wonderful adventures of Pip and old Miss Havisham and her cobwebbed house and by the spell of magic that Dickens the great story-teller had woven with his words .
24 Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness .
25 I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting .
26 Leith was sitting stunned , with her glasses still in her hand , when a minute later Jimmy rushed in with the papers he 'd been to collect .
27 He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose .
28 The brave eight-year-old will mix with her classmates again at Basildon , Essex , in a bid to get over her ordeal .
29 But with her emotions out of gear yet again , she hung in there and hoped that whatever he said next would be favourable .
30 Mrs Monelle wept as she told how Sarah , who shared a flat with her sister in at Keynsham , had lived for her son .
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