Example sentences of "with [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 2 | The next example shows how the reported form may sometimes have the reporting clause embedded as a parenthesis , so that the whole sentence resembles , in word order , the structure of quoted speech , but with only commas for punctuation : |
| 3 | ‘ She has a distressingly simple mind , with only room for a single idea at any one time . |
| 4 | By then , the team will have marched 10 miles a day for a fortnight to reach base camp and endured temperatures of -40C and galeforce winds — with only tents for shelter . |
| 5 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 6 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 7 | These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins . |
| 8 | Armed with collecting boxes they persuaded customers to part with nearly £135 for Newhaven lifeboat . |
| 9 | ‘ Under 13pc of income on average was spent on initial mortgage repayments in Northern Ireland in comparison with nearly 18pc for the UK as a whole . ’ |
| 10 | Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS . |
| 11 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 12 | In published series of patients aged 80 years and over undergoing aortic valve replacement the operative mortality was around 15% ( compared with around 4% for patients under 70 ) . |
| 13 | Now Cyrix has opened a second front with plans to sell a clone of the more powerful 486 for a fraction of the price , just $119 compared with around $550 for Intel 's latest version . |