Example sentences of "a [noun sg] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gomez sat on a bucket with his back to the companionway . |
| 2 | ‘ Take a bucket with you , ’ advised Lydia , not solicitously , just to be on the safe side . |
| 3 | For example , one member of the Association of Carers had to leave hospital within two days of a mastectomy with her draining tubes still in place because the community nursing service found her mother and disabled husband too much to cope with . |
| 4 | He is holding a round copper tray under one arm like a subaltern with his cap at a passing-out parade . |
| 5 | These recitations are of crucial importance , not only religiously ( whereby the reciter ‘ reactivates ’ the stories , the traditions , the revelation ) but socially , in integrating the participants into a unity with them — as their stories and traditions , from which strength and morale were drawn . |
| 6 | He stood and looked at them sway , feeling a unity with them as his body swayed to the same light breeze . |
| 7 | They were full of makeup , boxes of this and pots of that ; a case with her expensive jewellery , all the pieces meticulously fitted in to their places . |
| 8 | It is , it was a case it was a case with me that I was black or white and that 's why that 's why it hit the press like it did . |
| 9 | We carried only suitcases and clothes and we had a case with our jewellery and the registry deeds to our lands inside . |
| 10 | In Modern Masterpiece there is the idea of people being taken over by a force greater than themselves and dancing themselves to death , and that seems to tie in a bit with what is going on |
| 11 | I 'd rather exercise my brain a bit with something creative . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd rather exercise my brain a bit with something creative . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't mind talkin' a bit with me , do you ? ’ |
| 14 | I try walking for a bit with my eyes closed proper , but I keep having to open them cos I 'm scared I 'm going to bump into summat . |
| 15 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 16 | Bet you his parents and the girlfriend helped him out a bit with his decision — ‘ You join them Rovers or else ! ! ! ’ . |
| 17 | We went into the country to an old ranch-style house where they have ‘ traditional Brazilian food ’ and I walked around the ranch ( ‘ fazenda ’ ) for a bit with his family . |
| 18 | I mean I think we have taken liberty a bit with his parents but yeah I think you will be able to get some toast . |
| 19 | So each time you go up , take a bit with you . |
| 20 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 21 | Berndt 's gaze hovered embarrassingly on a level with her bosom and Chesarynth felt again her lack of development . |
| 22 | As he came along the deck his legs were on a level with her eyes . |
| 23 | And , even with the man still on his knees and half doubled-up with pain , his head , with its swept-back mane of hair , was still at a level with her waist … |
| 24 | His face was on a level with hers , his pupils were strange , bright . |
| 25 | Because of his superior height , his head was on a level with hers and she could feel his breath stirring her hair . |
| 26 | He was kneeling by the side of the bed , his arms about her waist , his head on a level with hers . |
| 27 | At last I was up on a level with him . |
| 28 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 29 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 30 | The surgeon 's face appeared on a level with my own : ‘ We 've found a tumour in your spinal cord which we think is the cause of your troubles . ’ |