Example sentences of "with [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat .
2 So my mam says come on she said come with me and took her home and er sat her down on oh and she 'd go and get this stocking off of her little leg it was er hole in the leg like that .
3 She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse .
4 When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal .
5 The last man I had hired came with me and assured me that the girl who rode to the house was Jenna Bryant .
6 ‘ Later in the week he said he was falling in love with me and kissed me just before I got out of the car .
7 ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten .
8 There was a nurse who sat with me and held my hand through that night .
9 Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a ‘ hard little thing ’ or ‘ a cruel spirit ’ , but I preferred that to being called ‘ my darling ’ .
10 I could never remember how to do them , I mean if somebody , if someone sat with me and explained it to me and then I , and then I could do it , I would do
11 I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about .
12 So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely .
13 Gradually these courts decayed , partly owing to the jealousy of the Common Law Courts , which interfered with them and extended their own jurisdiction .
14 She left his number with them and asked them to get him to ring , then made another drink .
15 They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order .
16 So she went with them and thought it was great fun .
17 With our Masai translator and guide we lived with them and accepted their hospitality which was our biggest witness to them .
18 He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’
19 The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day .
20 As at Lloyd 's of London , they thought that the good days would always be with them and adjusted their pay , and their fees , to suit .
21 The players took the numbers in the score where Toscanini had lost his temper with them and entered them into the lottery .
22 I began to wonder if he was doing it deliberately , if he knew I was insanely in love with you and thought it was funny to goad me . ’
23 I vowed to have no more to do with her but thought I ought to return her shoes and her key , so I snatched Frankie 's comic and tried to persuade him to come with me .
24 When it was obvious that Inez was not coming back he packed up everything connected with her and stored it in one of the attics .
25 Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror .
26 She understood now why she had always felt extra-special and why her mother had been so strict with her and taught her things about life and men and getting babies .
27 Once outside he linked arms with her and took her to the little pub that the station staff used .
28 He stressed that he never intended to have sex with her and said he never used force or inflicted injury on the girl .
29 Donna took the envelope upstairs with her and laid it on the bedside table .
30 But Chloe , still under the influence of distant memory , thought that he was playing a game with her and wagged her tail even harder .
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