Example sentences of "[adj] with [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall .
2 ‘ As you know full well , ’ said Jaq , ‘ she can make free with our own food stocks . ’
3 Finally , after a spot of hand-shaking outside Tesco , the entourage swept off to the university , where Mr Smith hob-nobbed with his old school friend Prof Ian Gow about management skills — essential for anyone aspiring to No 11 .
4 I 'll be very careful with your little car John .
5 The left , consistent with its primary language capacity , is sequential and analytic in its style and has often been regarded as the rational half , responsible for the organisation and expression of conscious thought .
6 They argue that women and men are able to rate themselves highly on cross-gender items because they continue to give them meanings consistent with their own gender roles .
7 Consistent with our previous report arousal state influenced UOS pressure irrespective of the clinical grouping , with UOS pressure being significantly greater in arousal state B in all cases ( p<0.001 ) .
8 But we see no reason why it should not be acceptable ( and consistent with our human rights philosophy ) for aims such as reform , reparation and requalification to be considered and at least sometimes pursued when it has to be decided what punishment ( if any ) should be allocated to individual offenders , as long as this does not have the result of making the punishment harsher .
9 Hoisting the child on to her hip , Caroline glanced down at the short , figure-skimming creation , deceptively simple with its low sweetheart neckline and floaty cap sleeves .
10 The voters will be delighted with their lower poll-tax bills ; falling interest rates will be delivering cheaper mortgages .
11 and you 'll be delighted with our new summer dishes .
12 Oh that green looks really gorgeous with your colourful tracksuit dear .
13 Watkins ' fear is that if UI extends the Unix RoadMap to include conformance with SVR4.2 — technology which UI helped conceive and encouraged USL to develop — SunSoft would have to implement a bunch of APIs which are inconsistent with its own operating system releases to maintain RoadMap conformance .
14 That said I 've also been taken aback by Morrissey 's oddly derogatory remarks about Pakistanis as an 18-year-old and , without dwelling on them , I must say I found such flippant adolescent observations infuriatingly inconsistent with his general world view .
15 They are comfortable with his easy patrician manner , his second-generation-in-power lack of overt ambition , his casual ability to avoid saying too much .
16 This was the only large-scale employment of the Russians ; from this point on Vlasov and his commanders were mainly concerned with avoiding the destruction of their ‘ army ’ — now nominally 50,000 strong with its own air element , but poorly equipped and trained — in futile attempts to save Germany .
17 Beside the A6089 about 9 miles north-west of Kelso , a sixteenth-century turreted tower house complete with its original iron yett , or gate , behind a sturdy timber door .
18 Interior features include a sun room , strongroom , guest bedroom with its own bathroom and luggage room and the master suite comes complete with its own dressing room and en-suite bathroom .
19 This is the other Cheltenham complete with its own radio station .
20 But I sense that a male-voice choir leading the crowd , complete with their distributed song sheets , through Welsh anthems is a trifle zealous .
21 Sliding rails in the showroom accommodate large samples displaying the Prelude contract ranges for pubs , clubs and hotels , complete with their matching carpet borders .
22 He hopes all is well with his beloved sister Margaret ? ’
23 Although incredibly irritating with his overstated Ocker accent ( Australian Cockney — ‘ Beaut mate ’ , ‘ Let's crack open a tinny , mate ’ , ‘ Jeez mate , that 's a beaut Sheila ’ ) , Joe Mangle is the laddish but new manish gardener-next-door in Ramsay Street who everyone laughs at yet sympathises with .
24 Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night .
25 There is no doubt that our experience of reading is involved with our previous reading experiences .
26 He is also very happy with his British Sugar acquisition .
27 With the coming of the first world war , the children of Bentley School were soon busy with their own war efforts — they had a collection for the Blue Cross Fund for horses and a War Loan Savings Association was formed .
28 That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores .
29 Unfortunately the PLO remains obsessed with its own survival problems . ’
30 This reversal of priorities establishes the author as a thinker rather than a narrator , a philosopher rather than a Peter Pan obsessed with his own childhood memories .
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