Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [conj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure you know ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ that children in the bottom class at school are not expected to be able to read or spell or juggle with numbers when they first arrive . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the leisurely beginnings and ends of terms , the examination time , unexpected holidays , and festivals , requests for children to parade or sing or help with community work , there are the apparently inevitable absences of teachers : the headmaster to collect salaries , the senior teachers to mark and supervise examinations or attend panels , the married ladies to nurse sick children or to have babies . |
| 4 | Maybe they do vibrate and throb and pulsate with ‘ irritability ’ , and glow with ‘ living ’ warmth , but these properties all emerge incidentally . |
| 5 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 6 | With their subsequent production , It Pays To Advertise ( 1924 ) , they moved to the Aldwych Theatre , where they were joined in 1925 by the playwright Ben Travers [ q.v. ] , who was to describe Lynn in his memoirs as ‘ the greatest farcical actor I was ever lucky enough to know and watch and work with ’ . |
| 7 | True , he had to make distracting , bread-winning forays away from it but then , with glad and hastening steps , he returned to the true centre of his life , the children whom he helped to feed and bath and dress and play with , even cook for , in domestic servantless days like these . |
| 8 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 9 | They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with . |
| 10 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 11 | But heat-resistant hotelware , earthenware , crockery and china may be used provided it does not have metallic decoration which will blacken and spoil if used with microwave energy . |
| 12 | I sometimes used to go and sit and draw with my Father in his study and he would always encourage my work and often pass on his own useful tips on technique for which I was and still am very grateful . |