Example sentences of "and [vb past] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 2 | The government refused to concede one and counterattacked with assertions that the Police Complaints Board and civil courts are open to anyone with a genuine experience of improper treatment . |
| 3 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 4 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the dim light the gold and strong colours glittered and glowed with rich intensity . |
| 7 | The moment had come upon him too soon ; he felt his knees soften , and clung with rigid fingers to the pillar behind which he sheltered . |
| 8 | Harry swallowed the soft strangulation of tears and clung with desperate hands to the obstinacy that must do duty for his flagging courage . |
| 9 | They walked to the window and gazed with interest at the North Oxford back gardens , and their flowering trees . |
| 10 | After a pause Perkin put his back towards Gareth and his face down near mine and asked with perfect calmness , ‘ Do you know who shot you ? ’ |
| 11 | I turned , and asked with real interest , " What did I hear you call me ? " |
| 12 | She swallowed the mountain that had lodged in her throat and asked with thin sarcasm , ‘ Why , has n't she told you ? ’ |
| 13 | I was then attacked by six 109s and diced with them without anything firm being achieved other then preserving my own neck . |
| 14 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 15 | Their heads are inconspicuous and camouflaged with black and white stripes that conceal the eyes . |
| 16 | Nothing could be more splendid than the decoration of the Cathedral — velvet and ermine — gold and silver — flags and hangings of all colours were combined and harmonized with the splendid costumes of the Clergy , the uniforms civil and military , and the magnificent dresses of the ladies . |
| 17 | The East Gate of Karak Eight Peaks lay several miles inside the pass through a broad side valley paved with ancient stones and studded with the ruined tombs of Dwarf ancestors . |
| 18 | Since then the effigy has been displayed in his highly decorated sarcophagus , dressed in sumptuous clothes embroidered with gold and silver thread and studded with precious and semi-precious stones . |
| 19 | The figure is shaped from sheet gold and studded with amethysts , opals , sapphires , garnets , agates and carnelians set en cabochon . |
| 20 | The sky was clear and studded with stars , The three-quarter moon lit a silver path across the inky water . |
| 21 | Iskandara always chose the wing chair that had been her mother 's , covered in wine-red leather and studded with brass nails as big as gull 's eggs . |
| 22 | He was on the edge of a table , covered with festive fayre : plates of beef and suntanned turkey , roast something scaled like an armadillo and studded with cloves ; bowls of nuts , fruit and cream . |
| 23 | The door was of oak , buckled with age and studded with rusting iron bolts and bands of steel . |
| 24 | It is mountainous and glaciated with about sixty per cent of the land permanently covered in ice , and a coastline indented by many fiords . |
| 25 | For band shifting , the corresponding oligonucleotide was labelled by using T4 polynucleotide kinase and γ- 32 P-ATP and annealed with the complementary chain . |
| 26 | As he came nearer I could see that he was wearing a velveteen suit which was full of holes and splattered with wet clay . |
| 27 | Out of the gloom of that stone vault things glowed and twinkled with their own wondrous light . |
| 28 | Most achondrites are ‘ breccias ’ — rocks that have been crushed and recemented with angular fragments ( clasts ) lying in a finer-grained matrix , Before the Antarctic programme , two of the more common types of achondrites were classified as eucrites and howardites on the basis of the number of source rocks among their clasts and on the magnesium content of their pyroxine minerals ( Mg , Fe , Ca ) 2Si206 , — pyroxenes are the most abundant iron magnesium silicates in igneous rocks . |
| 29 | Mr Tebbit , a former Tory chairman , told Mr Hurd he disagreed with almost everything he said and agreed with almost everything Mr Kaufman said . |
| 30 | Le Monde , France 's daily newspaper of record , has been redesigned and relaunched with the help of a Fr25m advertising campaign which proclaims : ‘ Le Monde is changing . ’ |