Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
2 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
3 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
4 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
5 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
6 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
7 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
8 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
9 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
10 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
11 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
12 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
13 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
14 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
15 | And studied her with deathless agape . |
16 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
17 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
18 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
19 | He had virtually no bite , as he had once overheard Adam say to Bridget , and heard it with helpless chagrin . |
20 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
21 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
22 | He rose and kissed her with spontaneous pleasure . |
23 | Suspected Sendero guerrillas threw dynamite into his car and sprayed it with machine-gun fire . |
24 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
25 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
26 | I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy . |
27 | Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade . |
28 | And rocked me with soothing comfort |
29 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
30 | It was freezing inside the huge building ; it was as if someone had sucked every ounce of warm air from the interior and replaced it with icy breath . |