Example sentences of "[pers pn] with the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 2 | It can now be seen why staggered flocks are the essence to maintaining your customers , by supplying them with the grade of eggs they require . |
| 3 | ‘ Now the operation is commercial , we also help them with the purchasing of parts . ’ |
| 4 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 5 | The wall at his back flowed around him with the softness of feathers . |
| 6 | He or she invents a product which consumers did n't know they wanted until it is made available , manufactures it with the assistance of purveyors of risk capital known as publishers , and sells it in competition with makers of marginally differentiated products of the same kind . |
| 7 | Anticipate the hose-pipe bans and make the most of a sunny border , says Nigel Colborn , by filling it with the kind of plants that thrive on heat and dust |
| 8 | One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence . |
| 9 | You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America . |
| 10 | They brought out the launcher and fastened it to its base , and Diane spread out some plastic sheet for Jed and weighted it with the box of clays . |
| 11 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 12 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |