Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Working with a different pianist each night provided an infinite variety of the best and worst musicians in the country , and among the best were the few who listened with a different ear , who could lose the rest of the world and let voice and instrument be controlled by a joint spirit . |
2 | He had two foreign looms copied , and returned to England , setting up business in Taunton , where in 1589 he experimented with a multicoloured Spanish cloth , called medley or ‘ Webb 's ’ cloth . |
3 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
4 | And so they processed , the defiant and the hopeless , the resigned and those who pleaded with a silent desperation . |
5 | To those who answered with a truthful ‘ no ’ , the good doctor could offer an injection of distilled water ( coloured ) for a snip at just twenty-five dollars . |
6 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |