Example sentences of "[adv] with [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ All the best colleges offer first class tuition , but we also allocate a personal tutor to each student , even one who is only with us for three months .
2 The third missed opportunity could have been the try of the season after Botica broke brilliantly from his own line and beat man after man but Offiah could not hold his pass on halfway with no-one between him and the Bradford line .
3 And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one .
4 Inland and coastal fresh and brackish waters and marshes in lowlands , especially with plenty of vegetation and shallow muddy water .
5 She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer .
6 so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base
7 He said : ‘ I could n't bear the thought of us going down with me as club captain and president .
8 Sit down with me on this bench , Jane .
9 ‘ No , I 'll keep her down with me for the night . ’
10 Tell you what — why do n't you come down with me to Uulaa ?
11 By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that .
12 His ship was turned into a minesweeper in the war , and he went down with her off the east coast .
13 He nodded , and reaching out for her hand , he led her through into the sitting-room and sat down with her on the settee opposite the picture .
14 anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor
15 He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner .
16 He sets down the Kitchens ' salami-free , chicken-free , beef-free , pastrami-free , rib-free order , with a characteristic ‘ Enjoy ! ’ and then sits down with them at their table and lights up a cigarette .
17 The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled .
18 The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork .
19 They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow .
20 He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water .
21 Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses .
22 He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun .
23 He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench .
24 Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off .
25 A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles .
26 Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life .
27 Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet .
28 You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’
29 It was horrid leaving you two girls in Simla , but within a few weeks — at the end of that term — we were able to have you down with us in Poona , and you went to the Wantage Sisters ' school there , and Tim went too .
30 The Lord Chancellor , travelling down with us in the train , took Mollie a bet of 5 to 5s. that he would not stand .
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