Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 3 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 4 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 5 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 6 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 7 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 8 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 9 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 10 | A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents — including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock . |
| 11 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 12 | As events unrolled they sensed that the noisy disarray presented them with new opportunities . |
| 13 | Black sportsmen presented me with vivid examples running counter to the stereotypical black youth and , as such , they lent themselves perfectly to my general purposes , for I am hopefully in the process of shattering some of the popular images of blacks . |
| 14 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 15 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , each man refused it with some indignation ; Kissinger in particular thought it outrageous that such an old friend and ally as the Shah should not be allowed into the States . |
| 17 | The corner that Japan had been backed into by economic sanctions left her with little alternative . |
| 18 | Then other living organisms provided them with further opportunities , and through symbiosis ( a mutually-dependent state of living together ) they created , finally , animals . |
| 19 | Sadly , it was not confined to writers and artists , for though it may be unfair to blame Nietzsche for his appropriation by Nazi ideologues , there is no question but that his doctrine of the superman and his apparent anti-semitism provided them with fertile soil . |
| 20 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 21 | But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt . |
| 22 | The pile of clean , new paper filled him with excited pleasure . |
| 23 | The local authority provided her with temporary accommodation . |