Example sentences of "with [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sense of its presence , he wrote , but not an oppressive presence ( as with For Micah , for example ) . |
| 2 | The eighties brought commercial pragmatism , with for example many refreshment-trolley services run by private firms that employees of any organisation as large as BR would almost certainly have found impractical . |
| 3 | The Mark 2 coaches inaugurated in 1966 had generally set a new standard of comfort with for example better heating and ventilation but there were no Mark 2 catering or sleeping cars . |
| 4 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
| 5 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 6 | That was as much as he felt he could cope with for a while , but he was soon to be ‘ prevailed upon by government ’ to become chairman of British Steel in double harness with the Tate $ Lyle job . |
| 7 | Vanderford was the stripper he had lived with for three years in San Francisco , starting in 1980 , when he got out of jail . |
| 8 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ It is more important than the general election itself that we maintain a constitution that has served us well for generations , and ought not to be lightly tampered with for party political purposes in the midst of the general election . ’ |
| 10 | The result would simply be a shift in staffing to increase the ratios where they are most needed , with for example severely mentally handicapped children . |
| 11 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 12 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 14 | Of course the problems of distinguishing F from C , goat from sheep , are no worse than the problems teachers were faced with for years , when they had to separate O level candidates from those who would work for CSE . |
| 15 | Who did Elton John team up with for last year 's chart smash Do n't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ? |
| 16 | Friends whom Grahame made at Fowey and kept up with for life , the Purves family of Philadelphia , all believed in Fowey as the setting and the opening chapter as being inspired by a gentle row up to Golant one golden Summer in the early years of the century . |
| 17 | Behind the solitary constable was a vast army of doppelgänger wheeling and cavorting in the city 's Sefton Park , ready and available to reinforce the power of the patrol officer , a force to be reckoned with for those who might dispute the territory of the street . |
| 18 | Partnership on the cheap , with for example only short term planning possible , and people on short term contracts will make little , if any , difference to the habitual ways in which education and business have traditionally related to one another . |
| 19 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 20 | Sometimes loneliness may have to be lived with for a while and not fought against . |
| 21 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |
| 22 | But the non-cognate degree holder , with for example a degree in languages , mathematics or geography , offers other prospects and his presence has noticeably increased . |
| 23 | The finiteness of the simplex method , established in Chapter 3 , shows that in any sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals , we must eventually reach a tableau with for all critical columns j , and consequently , at the next iteration , a tableau optimal over a non-degenerate interval . |
| 24 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 25 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 26 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |
| 27 | Take these away and one is left with a little body of poems from the Shire , mostly in quatrains with alternate lines rhyming , in plain language and metre and with for the most part a gently proverbial quality . |
| 28 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 29 | Ron wants to raise money for disabled children , whom he has worked with for many years . |
| 30 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |