Example sentences of "with [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , it was great to have clothes to wear again , real clothes , beautiful clothes , clothes that had been created with genius and handled with adoration , shy , deceiving little artefacts that seemed just lengths of cloth but once you possessed them would flow over your body like enchanted water and transform you into something magical . |
| 2 | I enjoyed the contrast at the Club , the jollity round the pool , the quietness of the airy room near the Artemis bar where people read or played cards , the shady walkways where nine gardeners work hard with hose and hoe keeping the bougainvillea brilliant and the geraniums glowing . |
| 3 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 4 | Robyn twisted her head with difficulty and saw the white shirt , with legs attached presumably , going back down the path that led through the grand herbaceous borders towards the house . |
| 5 | He turned with difficulty and got the keys out of the pocket of his trousers and put them on the chair seat . |
| 6 | She ignored him with difficulty and threaded a length of Size C Tubigrip on to the frame and then up over his ankle . |
| 7 | He unscrewed the top with difficulty and drank the entire contents in quick gulps . |
| 8 | Then she would close the book , rise with difficulty and take a slow , often painful walk to join her daughter-in-law , the Sheikha . |
| 9 | She sat up with difficulty and began to take gulps of air . |
| 10 | The operation left Keith profoundly disabled , he 's deaf , he walks with difficulty and suffers double vision . |
| 11 | He put his arm around her with difficulty and held her close to him . |
| 12 | Pascoe kept back his exasperation with difficulty and put his thoughts as mildly as he could manage . |
| 13 | Alexandra disengaged Jack with difficulty and rose to her feet . |
| 14 | The little deer was seen staggering in a distressed and bloated condition , captured with difficulty and taken to a vet who pumped fermented corn from the stomach — presumably the fawn had gorged herself on pheasant feed . |
| 15 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 16 | But we are not African natives where they can come with bailiffs and throw us out . |
| 17 | And the public are familiar with X-rays and find them acceptable . |
| 18 | Despite high capital costs , this can happen if , by constructing Sizewell , the CEGB can save money by burning less coal and oil and the savings outweigh all the costs associated with building and operating the new power station . |
| 19 | Thus many of the early joint.stock enterprises which were granted the privilege of corporate identity were concerned with building and operating canals and railways . |
| 20 | Credit may be linked with building and keeping a family . |
| 21 | Then she nodded with decision and rose from her chair . |
| 22 | Our buying power with major hotel chains means that we can put together an excellent package , complete with rail and coach fares , and we also look after all the administration of the holiday . |
| 23 | Since then the area has become overgrown with reeds and provides an important habitat for bird life . |
| 24 | Their faces were filled with horror and fear when they saw me . |
| 25 | Amid the banter and foul jibes of the crowd — drunk as all crowds are at a blood-letting — the God-bearer Mary and a few disciples stood numb with horror and dread as they saw their Lord and their champion humiliated , despised and broken . |
| 26 | With horror and doubt on his face , the elder seizes a pitchfork and hurls it into the gangster 's back ’ It could be argued from the Kantian standpoint that the elder had failed in his duty by not upholding the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence . |
| 27 | She felt frightened and strange as she thought of greeting her first-born , who would not know her and might recoil with horror and cry for Ellen . |
| 28 | Like any other business , it is all to do with contacts and getting introductions . |
| 29 | He was an investment banker and financier , in his early fifties , with contacts and influence into all reaches of Industry and Government . |
| 30 | Editor , — Headlines reports a study noting that the work of police surgeons in inner London is dominated by calls associated with intoxication and arguing that there is a need for a standardised approach to the assessment of a suspect 's fitness to be interviewed . |