Example sentences of "with [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder how many climbers today empathise with my reasons for climbing ? |
| 2 | There was still no one home so I was safe to carry on with my experiments in dressing like an adult . |
| 3 | Stung by growing criticism of the Royal Family , she has already started palace talks with her solicitors over ending her tax-free status , according to reports . |
| 4 | Amy will eat her food and play with her toys without having to give them to Keith . |
| 5 | Then I heard the door open again , and turned , thinking Mrs Raffald would be there with her things for tidying up , but it was Robert . |
| 6 | She wanted to scream out loud , to strike at him with her fists for destroying her dream . |
| 7 | Katherine had left Ireland almost immediately afterwards , spending a little time in Cornwall with her children before travelling up to Scotland to stay with friends there . |
| 8 | Beyond the court , beyond the wall with its globes of protecting lights , I could see the bulbous tower of the family mosque . |
| 9 | Spring Ram , which was one of the brighest stars on the market over the last few years , says the acquisition fits with its aims of becoming Europe 's leading maker of home improvement products . |
| 10 | ‘ If the NASUWT goes ahead with its threats of boycotting all tests at all levels this summer it will be doing terrible damage to children , it will cause enormous distress and concern to parents and it will damage the professional standing and status of teachers , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Is he also aware that British Steel can not go ahead with its plans for building a new plate mill on Teesside because of the depth of the recession into which the Government have plunged the country ? |
| 12 | They talked together about the tests ( and Isobel thanked God she understood so little of it ; it all sounded so complicated and unfriendly ) , and she watched the baby on the monitor screen high on the wall and the patterns on the machines , the ones linked up to the cot with its attachments for measuring his heartbeats and his breathing and his body temperature . |
| 13 | Four bars leading up to the chorus using the same notes as before , but a more basic pattern and an octave down , until the chorus comes in loud and heavy , a complete contrast with its barrages of driving sixteenth notes . |
| 14 | Still , the idea of an academic community , with its connotations of sharing and common commitment , dies hard . |
| 15 | The company , which is developing the Paisley and Braehead shopping centres , said falling property values was responsible , but it was now in talks with its banks on renegotiating its outstanding loans . |
| 16 | It is easy to scoff at the movement — with its prizes for knitting and taffeta umbrellas , its hyperboles about the happy revolution to be accomplished by wheel ploughs , its scientific amateurism — as the naïve posturings of a minority engaged in a self-conscious crusade against the forces of routine and conservatism . |
| 17 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 18 | Mark , Babur and Claire are sitting by the motel pool with their shades on drinking Cokes . |
| 19 | How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ? |
| 20 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 21 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 22 | The Derbyshire Times noted that defiant parents were voting with their feet by keeping children away from school . |
| 23 | In some prisons , inmates have shown solidarity with their jailers by refusing to return to their cells after exercise . |
| 24 | These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate : |
| 25 | Holidaymakers have been advised to check with their hotels before travelling to Llandudno . |
| 26 | They are equipped with high resolution visual display screens and , as well as keyboards , graphic input devices to allow users to communicate with their machines by pointing to information on the screens . |
| 27 | I 've seen thirty men with their coats off fighting — getting on the trams and dragged off . |
| 28 | In most areas of local government activity , the main concern of business organizations was that councils should operate as cheaply as possible and interfere as little as possible with their operations through planning controls . |
| 29 | As the Government , with their policies of dividing society , have been responsible for the breakdown in law and order , can not we at least expect bobbies back on the beat to protect us ? |
| 30 | How does my hon. Friend think that they square that with their policies of imposing a payroll tax on small businesses and of gaoling small business men who fail to pay a socialist minimum wage ? |