Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |
| 2 | The first step involves someone talking with you , and perhaps your carer , to identify and understand your needs so that we can provide services best suited to you . |
| 3 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 4 | Neither council wants me to deal with this as a late objection . |
| 5 | He 's now 80 and he wants me to live with him — he says he wants to take care of me . |
| 6 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
| 7 | ‘ Margaret wants me to go with her , ’ said Hilary , with a languid gesture . |
| 8 | This last point is a touchy issue with Sun , which wants nothing to do with USL 's Moolit toolkit . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend at all surprised that the local health authority wants nothing to do with that document because it is pure Labour party propaganda and a cynical manipulation of the elderly and the frail ? |
| 11 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 12 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 13 | Without perception and inclination , reason has nothing to engage with ; when it does have them to engage with , it can criticize and guide . |
| 14 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 15 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 16 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 17 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 18 | However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all . |
| 19 | This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all . |
| 20 | If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it : |
| 21 | Mr Georgiadis said : ‘ This murder has nothing to do with poachers , Ugandans , Somalians , Tanzanians or little green men from Mars … |
| 22 | The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge . |
| 23 | The agent takes 15 per cent of the band 's earnings which has nothing to do with the band 's costs . |
| 24 | The executor has nothing to do with it ! |
| 25 | The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords . |
| 26 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 27 | The most important marketing device in the industry has nothing to do with skiing at all . |
| 28 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 29 | So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman . |
| 30 | Bad trainers now rule the market , but it has nothing to do with ‘ fashion ’ — it 's mass consumerism ( check Tony Wilson out in his Travel Fox ) . |