Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't see the resemblance of Stu and Paul Young though , perhaps I expected someone with Spiky hair & black leather trousers .
2 I , I found it with utmost ease .
3 I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said .
4 Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school .
5 I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies .
6 After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room .
7 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
8 The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line .
9 ‘ Normally , when I hit anybody with that punch they do n't get up , but as Ruddock was getting to his feet I just kept watching him and I could tell by his eyes that he was hurting bad .
10 I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde .
11 I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy .
12 But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’
13 I sprayed him with that stuff .
14 Actually I preferred her with white hair . ’
15 I astonished myself with this realization .
16 I did it with some stuff before
17 I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby .
18 I trusted you with that report — and with the information it contained .
19 ‘ I would n't do it , ’ he said , ‘ because it was another anti-war film and I wanted something with some fun in it . ’
20 She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency .
21 She made it with thirty seconds to spare .
22 Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ?
23 There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career .
24 He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste .
25 In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang .
26 Then she tried 'em with new make-up On a sponsored run round Bacup , And at Norwich for a porridge Eating contest which she won .
27 She shrivelled him with one glance .
28 Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting .
29 She fixed him with anxious eyes .
30 Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part .
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