Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , Du Camp , ’ someone finally suggested with a little impatience , ‘ what about our dear Gustave ? ’ |
| 3 | It now has 680 pages , many of them richly illuminated with a flamboyant exuberance unique in Irish and Insular manuscript art . |
| 4 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 5 | Charles looked at Alex 's haggard face , which now glowed with a new light . |
| 6 | The year 's first serious labour dispute began with a three-day unofficial strike at the giant Hyundai shipyard in the southern city of Ulsan which immediately met with a harsh response from the government . |
| 7 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 8 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 9 | ‘ A tall , grizzle-haired fellow who now walks with a pronounced limp . |
| 10 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 11 | It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey . |
| 12 | Her hair , which is down to her bum , and a colour of gold one only gets with a little help from Miss Clairol , was an absolute mess from the wind . |
| 13 | Does not a human cypher or zero have to be capable of hearing the inner voice and , to the extent that he does hear it , is he not then a human being with the defects and failings that one normally associates with a human being ? |
| 14 | He is assiduous in plying me with melba toast , and has the charm one always associates with a private homosexual . |
| 15 | We originally started with a six-session package but later increased its length to eight sessions . |
| 16 | Furthermore , when we do not notice an example , we often begin with a vague feeling that the text is poorly written and have to work quite hard to say just what is wrong with it . |
| 17 | We therefore conclude with a brief examination of a number of studies which either explicitly compare bargaining structures of different countries at a sub-national level , or which seek to identify systematically by means of quantitative methods inter-industry determinants within a single , national industrial relations system — the results of which may then be compared as between countries . |
| 18 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 19 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 20 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 21 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 22 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |
| 23 | It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others . |
| 24 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 25 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 26 | Mr Getty , by omitting the letter ‘ i ’ , reduced Colin 's Christian name to a monosyllable , while Colin contrived to get three separate sounds into the name Paul , which he always spoke with a rising inflexion . |
| 27 | The Star Cursor Joystick is the closest thing to having your own arcade game in your home , it also comes with a 1 year guarantee . |
| 28 | It also comes with a free camera case . |
| 29 | It also comes with a stripped-down version of Norton Backup , which is as good as any back-up software I 've come across . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |