Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said your body is like a book in which men may read strange things , a foreign country in which they may travel with delight . |
| 2 | Clearly they should behave with dignity and sit quietly at home waiting to die . |
| 3 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 4 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 5 | Though very sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of the birth family most adopters did not feel they could cope with contact . |
| 6 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 7 | They could lodge with Grandpa during the week and go home at week-ends . |
| 8 | But the shift in focus involved in the journey south did not necessarily reposition the directors who had once rediscovered northern grime into a world which they could explore with sympathy and understanding . |
| 9 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 10 | Staff wanted material which they could use with class groups . |
| 11 | In the first five months , Sony sold as many as they could manufacture with unit sales topping 70,000 . |
| 12 | Then they 'd go with Dad to fetch Grandpa while Mum finished preparing the meal . |
| 13 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 14 | If they should meet when the trouble was over , he thought , avoiding the word ‘ divorce ’ even in his head , they would communicate with difficulty and unease . |
| 15 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |
| 16 | CITIES targeted by the Government are each to have a minister from a team of nine headed by the Inner Cities Minister , Mr David Hunt , to advise them on regenerating the urban environment They will work with City Action Teams and Inner City Task Forces already set up , Mr Hunt yesterday told a London conference , Business in the Cities . |
| 17 | With only this single shock affecting prices the signal extraction problem facing suppliers disappears : they can infer with confidence from their local price what the relative demand shock is . |
| 18 | They 're also testing exactly how far they can go with mum and dad . |
| 19 | They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them . |
| 20 | Their two main disadvantages are that they can discolour with time unless an ultra-violet light stabiliser is incorporated in the plastic , and that it 's difficult to fit security devices to them ( make sure good locks are fitted as standard by the manufacturer and frames are strengthened ) . |
| 21 | Their two main disadvantages are that they can discolour with time unless an ultra-violet light stabiliser is incorporated in the plastic , and it 's difficult to fit security devices to them ( so make sure good locks are fitted as standard ) . |
| 22 | Topics to be debated will include how museums can increase access for the different audiences they serve without trivialising their message or damaging their collections , and how they can deal with competition from theme parks and other ‘ heritage ’ industries . |
| 23 | That way they can deal with decay underneath or around them . |
| 24 | This kind of police misbehaviour encourages many Brazilians to believe that the only way they can deal with crime is to fight fire , so to speak , with fire . |
| 25 | On their own , owls can not cure the rat problem , but they can help with control . |
| 26 | So they can come with time off work and probably on an expense account , even to a far-flung location . |
| 27 | All this helps oxygen accumulate , and carbon compounds ‘ sink ’ into rocks where they can recombine with oxygen . |