Example sentences of "with [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
2 | Mama was annoyed with me for leaving my baby brother asleep on the big bed in the playroom . |
3 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
4 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
5 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
6 | He was furious with me for ringing him . |
7 | Jean-Claude would be pleased with me for staying out of the attic . |
8 | I am sure Peter will not take issue with me for saying , right now , that his filter is an ugly beast . |
9 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
10 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
11 | The factor which has weighed most with me in reaching this conclusion is the scheme of the Act as shown by its treatment of trusts . |
12 | Eddie McAteer repeated Betty Sinclair 's plea for restraint : ‘ Join with me in wishing that no one should be exposed to hurt here today . |
13 | So join with me in wishing our members a happy birthday |
14 | While some of us have sought to help , the real weight of responsibility has fallen on his shoulders and those of his wife and I 'm sure all members of Council will join with me in saying a very real thank you to them both . |
15 | And then in a few minutes Dennis is going to join with me in explaining to you how we are going to make the quality planning procedure work for you . |
16 | I am sure that you will want to join with me in thanking him and all the staff of the Council for their valuable work in what has been a particularly busy and challenging year . |
17 | If , if , if I could summarize , if you could bear with me by saying that , there is no embracing legislation which covers fire safety , and there is no legislation which actually prioritizes it . |
18 | Is there any way of dealing with them without using chemicals ? |
19 | ‘ The understanding is that the auctioneer should not part with possession of them ( the goods ) to the purchaser except against payment of the price ; or if the auctioneer should part with them without receiving payment , he is responsible to the vendor for the price … . |
20 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
21 | You will need to cooperate with them without losing the initiative . |
22 | Sometimes they have little bottles of stuff called Softwash on hotel shelves , which the guests take with them on leaving . |
23 | And she was annoyed with them for knowing so much , she had begun to feel safe in the hotel . |
24 | The investigators suggested that the combination of communication deviance and critical , intrusive or guilt-inducing affect from parents meant that their adolescent child had ‘ little recourse through communication with them for exploring , clarifying , or correcting his feelings of unworthiness , rejection , or isolation ’ . |
25 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
26 | Not the part about Jeff and Silvia disappearing off together — though she felt angry with them for doing that , she was n't totally surprised . |
27 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
28 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
29 | A shared Protestant Christianity , combined with the legend of the persecuted Puritans seeking refuge in the new world to worship freely ( and pari passu to prevent those disagreeing with them from worshipping at all ) and based on the Authorized Version of the Bible , Shakespeare , Bunyan and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs , transcended political separation . |
30 | To cover our confusion and to keep our emotional needs under control we deal with them by using stock phrases . |