Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] with [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 2 | A business executive who is faced with dismissal usually has to content himself with seeking financial compensation in the form of damages for breach of contract , unfair dismissal compensation or state redundancy pay . |
| 3 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |
| 4 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 5 | Neither they nor the local relief committees were given any remit whatsoever with regard to how food should be dispensed or who was eligible to receive it . |
| 6 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 7 | She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close . |
| 8 | By the time the traffic ceased , they were far too late to carry out a proper raid on the airfield and had to content themselves with shooting up transport along the road . |
| 9 | In which case they would have to content themselves with making a demonstration , burning the castleton and village and driving off Dacre 's and his people 's cattle and horses . |
| 10 | He did not see why Burney need concern himself with dissecting the kidneys . |
| 11 | The BBC could plan ahead and not concern itself with chasing large audiences since its funds were guaranteed . |
| 12 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 13 | Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the evolving nature of the project itself with regard to guidelines on the format of proposals , the need for detailed spending plans and so on , it is natural enough that the shape and membership of the library committees in the first wave of schools were initially rather vague , the committees developing into more clearly constituted bodies as project development got under way . |