Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 2 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 3 | Jay drifted through the dazzle to hold her , kissed her agonisingly soft hair , breathed her perfume , kissed her closed wet eyes with a tenderness that stabbed through her with a sword of fire . |
| 4 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 5 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 6 | K. R. You might be in Park Lane and a fellow 's walking towards you with a suitcase . |
| 7 | When she returned to New York , she bumped against them with a vengeance . |
| 8 | This was their initiation into the NSC world of secrecy , and they entered into it with a will . |
| 9 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 10 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 11 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 12 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 13 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 14 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 15 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 16 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 17 | ‘ You can think of it with a fire going and a light burning , , Jean said . |
| 18 | I watched through George 's window as Filmer made great effort to go towards her with a smile , drawing attention away from the gaunt-faced man , who returned to the station . |
| 19 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 20 | Against that , though , there is a ‘ vast contemporary repertoire — the guitar has come into its own in popularity in this period , and people are now writing for it with a vengeance . |
| 21 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 22 | A waiter threaded past them with a tray of delicious looking amber-coloured drinks , with ice and fruit on top . |
| 23 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 24 | Ma Bombie had scratched round it with a broom as ancient as herself and with slightly fewer bristles than she had on her chin . |
| 25 | Rosalba prayed to the Madonna of the Spasm in particular , the statue in the church in Rupe who had once wept real tears in sympathy with someone who had prayed to her with a heart full of sorrow too . |
| 26 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 27 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 28 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 29 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 30 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |