Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
2 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
3 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
4 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
5 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
6 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
7 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
8 | Bonanza favoured me with a full-face view of him now . |
9 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
10 | CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 . |
11 | Daughter Helen , 25 , needed constant attention after whooping cough left her with a mental age of just two . |
12 | Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful . |
13 | Communist party orthodoxy presented him with a unique opportunity to voice his frustration and anger . |
14 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
15 | This was particularly the case where the occupational community provided him with a rural counter-culture that enabled class antagonisms to be sustained , albeit in a hidden form . |
16 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
17 | His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic effect on her senses . |
18 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
19 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
20 | ‘ You 're prepared to go , I suppose ? ’ the magistrate asked him with a studied casualness Zen found rather insulting . |
21 | But from Hobbes 's description it seems as though its very contemplation filled him with a trembling , timorous fear . |
22 | And his young wife accompanied him with a sensitive mastery that could only have been born of love . |
23 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
24 | But before he could , the Company Manager stopped him with an admonitory ‘ Incidentally , Mr. Paris … ’ |
25 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
26 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
27 | The assistant behind the counter acknowledged them with a curt nod and his eyes flickered towards an area of the shop hidden from the entrance . |
28 | ‘ Here , take my seat , ’ she offered , and the young woman took it with a grateful smile . |
29 | Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had . |
30 | The mortals believed that she was the provider of great riches until a seven-headed monster called The Cabinet destroyed her with the Golden Hair of Heseltine . |