Example sentences of "[pers pn] with [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I can help you with is an understanding of the nature of a product that goes far beyond these crudities ; these academic categories masquerading as truths . ’ |
| 2 | Jamie has no demons like you and defies you with being a skunk Repulsive to humanity and most of the animal kingdom , but irresistible to another skunk ! |
| 3 | I hope all these very pretty sentiments about not being strong enough to stand watching other people doing things in the war are just part of a passing phase ; or maybe it 's these ‘ books of a higher nature ’ … but I never credited you with being able to talk such utter balls . |
| 4 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 5 | And all they catch me with is a few DFs . |
| 6 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 7 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 8 | Corbett was worried as the silver Burnell had furnished him with was nearly gone . |
| 9 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 10 | That she 'd had no husband , that the only man she 'd ever seen her with was — David Harland . |
| 11 | That the style they replaced it with is specifically a feminist style is suggested by the comments made to me when I interviewed feminist women about how they thought feminists talked . |
| 12 | Well , before the invention of sound recording — and indeed for some time after — the only thing people could compare it with was stenography . |
| 13 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 14 | I suspect that most of them identify it with being white . |
| 15 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 16 | As Mr Michael Dukakis found to his cost in 1988 , voters equate opposition to the death penalty with being soft on crime , support for it with being tough . |
| 17 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 18 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 19 | Of course , we may call our doubt ‘ total doubt ’ or charge it with being unbelief , but only if our purpose is to stop doubt short and see that it does not become unbelief . |
| 20 | The Open Software Foundation denies a scathing front-page story in last week 's Communications Week that practically writes off its Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) , charging it with being late , possibly too late to matter much to the marketplace , and with causing in-fighting between OSF 's technology suppliers . |
| 21 | What these descriptions present us with is the concept of an impersonal Absolute or Ultimate and this is exactly what Gandhi wishes to convey for he has no hesitation in expressing a preference for the idea of God as formless Truth . |
| 22 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |