Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
2 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
3 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
4 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
5 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
6 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
7 | Kirsty 's solvent abuse has left her with serious health problems . |
8 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
9 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
10 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
11 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
12 | ‘ There is no way we are going to support it with public money . |
13 | Gqozo told the conference that the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) had promised to provide him with military support if the ANC again entered Ciskei [ see p. 39078-79 ] . |
14 | The Queen added that 1993 would bring new challenges and called on people to resolve to meet them with fresh hope . |
15 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
16 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
17 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
18 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
19 | overworking you and failing to provide you with reasonable support ; |
20 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
21 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
22 | But we 'll have to do it with cold water and the yard broom . ’ |
23 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
24 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
25 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
26 | With very fine seed try mixing it with fine silver sand to ensure the seeds are not sown too closely . |
27 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
28 | I do not wish to see it actually end here in this room as you attempt to stun her with blue-eyed hatred ! ’ |
29 | But now these beginnings had become something of a joke between them and the congregation had learned to accept them with amused tolerance . |
30 | Has some moron tried to strengthen them with yellowing tape ? |