Example sentences of "to part with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly there just is n't enough original or really exceptional material to tempt me to part with thirty pounds of my hard-earned cash . |
| 2 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 3 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A fly one too , if you ask me , getting a sharp little customer like Charlie Hatton to part with two hundred for thirty-two teeth . |
| 5 | As he explained in Urbino , ‘ These sketches are very much a part of myself and I am sure those who paint themselves will understand how hard it is to part with something into which , when inspired , you have poured your heart and soul . ’ |
| 6 | The Bristol Rovers chairman , Denis Dunford , said yesterday that the Third Division club would be ‘ reluctant ’ to part with their goalkeeper Nigel Martyn and the striker Gary Penrice . |
| 7 | Mail order is suffering from the public 's current reluctance to part with cash for non-essential goods . |
| 8 | Mail order is suffering from the public 's current reluctance to part with cash for non-essential goods . |
| 9 | Western banks are even more reluctant to part with cash , seeing the possibility that East European borrowing could become the Third World debt problem of the 1990s . |
| 10 | To accommodate him on their overseas register Leeds have had to part with Craig Izzard . |
| 11 | Sadly they were to part with Angie attempting suicide and David snatching their son Zowie back from Angie while she was away from home in Switzerland . |
| 12 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 13 | Uncle Walter had n't really wanted to part with it . |
| 14 | And take her home they did — never understanding why the previous owner had been so happy to part with her ! |
| 15 | One day I know I wo n't have room for everything but for the moment I wo n't bring myself to part with something I have found , ’ she said . |
| 16 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 17 | My grandfather would tell how he and some village musicians persuaded a local sympathiser to part with a lorry with which they toured round Scotland to raise money for the village . |
| 18 | Obviously people do n't like to part with their heirlooms — it 's like parting with something of their existence , a sort of death in life . |
| 19 | Yet he is loath to part with skilled people who could prove difficult to replace come the upturn . |
| 20 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 21 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |
| 22 | Even in areas which have been virtually abandoned , as in parts of the interiors of Greece and southern Italy , it is extremely difficult to persuade owners to part with their patrimony in the interests of agricultural development . |
| 23 | And yet will not be entreated to part with your sensual pleasures for your own salvation ? ’ |
| 24 | Richard Baxter said he was glad to part with all so that he had nothing left to be confiscated and that he could carry on preaching . |
| 25 | If the activity is n't enjoyable for those taking part and also those that are asked to part with their money then it 's not worth doing . |
| 26 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 27 | In such cases there is a reluctance to part with the house except on impossible terms : on a short lease or without any land to give it a moderate degree of privacy ; or there may be restrictions on the uses that are allowed — community uses only , perhaps , to be financed from public funds , which are not forthcoming . |
| 28 | On occasions one can buy cow , horse , poultry , or pig manure from neighbouring farms or stables , but few farmers can now afford to part with such valuable by-products . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like asking me to part with my heart , ’ replied Harold , half-meaning it , ‘ but since you ask me , I shall count it an honour , my dear . ’ |
| 30 | To part with it to Nails would wrench painfully at his inner being ; something would die . |