Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] with a [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 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 4 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 9 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 10 | I replaced it with a reconditioned Jaguar 4.2 pump , which made it fly . |
| 11 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 14 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 15 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 20 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 21 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |
| 22 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 23 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 24 | She passed him with a fractional quickening of her pace . |
| 25 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 26 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 27 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 28 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 29 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 30 | She fixed him with a glittering emerald stare . |