Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 3 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 4 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 5 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 6 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 7 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 8 | ‘ I treated it with a three-month course of Danocrine , followed by surgery which was necessary by this time , but was only effective and permanent because of the follow-up Danocrine treatment . ’ |
| 9 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 10 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 11 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 12 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 13 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 14 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 15 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 16 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 17 | I replaced it with a reconditioned Jaguar 4.2 pump , which made it fly . |
| 18 | I greeted him with the age-old aphorism : ‘ Those who can , do ; those who ca n't , teach ; and those who ca n't teach become administrators — in your case I know whether that is true ’ . |
| 19 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 20 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 21 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 22 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 23 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 24 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 25 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 26 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 27 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan . |
| 29 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 30 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |