Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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1 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
2 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
3 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
4 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
5 | Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos . |
6 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
7 | Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’ |
8 | Invest time , this week , next week and every week in encouraging and supporting this elite team , making sure that you provide them with development opportunities . |
9 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
10 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
11 | She knew that , as long as she applied it with care , she had great power over Bernard . |
12 | that 's right because he discussed it with me |
13 | She 's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest , and gave me information about her neighbours , whom she seems to like quite a bit . |
14 | They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it . |
15 | ‘ I do n't suppose it ever occurred to you that I was jealous when I saw you with him last night ? ’ he said softly . |
16 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
17 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
18 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
19 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
20 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
21 | It 's true that it seduces us with its pulse-quickening thrill , but it also serves as a privileged glimpse into the paranoia , loneliness and tunnel vision of the male survivalist . |