Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you just deal with politics at a surface , organizational level , you never understand how things have got to be this way . |
| 2 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the fireworks must have seeded the thick clouds overhead because it absolutely poured with rain , and we got soaked . |
| 4 | The myths which describe encounters with superhuman beings of all kinds never describe the various harmful ones as shy or fearful , whereas they always do with respect to the helpful . |
| 5 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 6 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 7 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |