Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Berge asked what could be more appropriate than to open with a French composer ? |
| 32 | Driven by a need she had never felt before , she pressed herself closer , her lips parting in an unconscious invitation , and heard the rough , wildly exciting groan Luke gave before he took her mouth in a kiss that burned with a raw fire . |
| 33 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 34 | Both they and Felco achieve their cut by curved blades that slice with a scimitar-like action . |
| 35 | You may omit from this count words that begin with a capital letter , words that are long because they are hyphenated and verbs whose third syllable is " -ed " or " -es . " |
| 36 | I give my hon. Friend that pledge with a great deal of enthusiasm . |
| 37 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 38 | After that they become too tall to manage easily , although dealing with a tall espalier growing flat on a wall is a breeze compared to pruning a bush tree of the same height . |
| 39 | Stoker was over six feet in height , with a red beard that contrasted with a full head of brown hair . |
| 40 | These were 100-page educational comics that dealt with a broad range of topics from the history of making . |
| 41 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 42 | Only occasionally he would say something that struck with a vague sense of warning , like the sudden , cold wind that blows along the ground just before a change in the weather . |
| 43 | The girls had washed and put away the cups and plates , covered the few squares of sandwiches that remained with a damp cloth . |
| 44 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 45 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 46 | He awoke late the following morning , and was immediately aware of the clammy stillness that comes with a Cornish mizzle . |
| 47 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
| 48 | The pulsar has a period of 102ms and slows with a characteristic age of 17,300yr . |
| 49 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 50 | The Royal bedroom in each car occupied roughly one-third of the car 's length , and communicated with a spacious bathroom fitted with a full-sized bath ; adjacent to the bathrooms were small sleeping compartments for the King 's valet and the Queen 's maid respectively . |
| 51 | I should apply a hot antiphlogistine poultice just above the fetlock and alternate with a cold hose on it twice a day . " |
| 52 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 53 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 54 | D'Alembord was newly engaged , and filled with a touching happiness at the prospect of his marriage . |
| 55 | It was small , immensely hot and filled with a dense soup of the fundamental particles : quarks ( which are heavy ) and leptons ( which are light ) . |
| 56 | But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration . |
| 57 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 58 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 59 | His chainsword , lifted high above the dome , descended in an arc and stopped with a tortured howl as it hit the carbon-reinforced vitreous . |
| 60 | A first-class engineer , McCafferty claimed he was allergic to diesel fumes and treated with a knowing disdain the frequently repeated observation that , because of the engine-room 's highly efficient extractor fans , it was virtually impossible for anyone to detect the smell of diesel . |