Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] 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 | He has deported himself with great dignity . |
| 3 | This important subject needed a balanced up-to-date review and David Hawkridge , professor of applied educational sciences and director of the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University , has supplied one with great clarity . |
| 4 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 5 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 6 | Not only has he exerted himself tirelessly on teh College 's behalf but he has flung himself with similar enthusiasm into fundraising for the Prince 's Trust and for the Leigh City Technology School in Kent . |
| 7 | For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness , the group situation can appear particularly attractive . |
| 8 | It is evident that Polybius has identified himself with Roman success . |
| 9 | Kirsty 's solvent abuse has left her with serious health problems . |
| 10 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 11 | It is difficult and must remain that way because history has left us with this difficulty . |
| 12 | Former marketing and promotions assistant to the now defunct David Messum Gallery , Michael Roosen has launched himself with considerable energy into the business of ‘ Healing , Personal Development , and Stress Management as well as Visual Arts promotion ’ . |
| 13 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 14 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 15 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 16 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 17 | A little thrill of anticipation ran along her skin as she turned and looked into the eyes of the man who 'd watched her with such intensity during the fashion show . |
| 18 | Her suffering would have overwhelmed anyone with less spirit , as the futile efforts of science to rid her of the growths ravage her body . |
| 19 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They all knew that Freddie had , as usual , ended yet another affair , but they reckoned that Liza could have consoled herself with any number of more suitable admirers . |
| 22 | You 'd have thought anybody with two brain cells to rub together and a spark of wit could find a way past Mike Read and Phil Collins . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I would normally have killed them with one strike of my talons ! ’ |
| 25 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 26 | They may have allied themselves with some enemy and been forced to leave . |
| 27 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 28 | Although the ceremonies contained in the Directory of Public Worship remained the official liturgy of the English church throughout the period from 1645 to the Restoration , few English parishes appear to have welcomed them with any enthusiasm , and all over the country clergymen continued to conduct services based substantially on the old Book of Common Prayer . |
| 29 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 30 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |