Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 2 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 3 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 4 | I greeted him with the age-old aphorism : ‘ Those who can , do ; those who ca n't , teach ; and those who ca n't teach become administrators — in your case I know whether that is true ’ . |
| 5 | Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished . |
| 6 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 7 | When her breasts were free she teased him with the top half of her peach-coloured bikini , waving it over his head and snatching it out of reach as he stretched up for it . |
| 8 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
| 9 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 10 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 11 | The Barons in England were furious at John and they presented him with the Great Charter — Magna Carta — prepared by Archbishop Langston , to which John authorised the attachment of his seal at Runnymede , beside the River Thames , in June 1215 . |
| 12 | TWO friends of Cadbury 's Flake model Rachel Brown last night denied they supplied her with the deadly drug Ecstasy . |
| 13 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 14 | He followed it with the endearing Doorway ( Severe ) a year later . |
| 15 | Before others his attitude was deferential and circumspect but when they rode alone , he treated her with the easy familiarity of an equal . |
| 16 | He splashed her with the grey-green ocean of his eyes . |
| 17 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 18 | He bandaged it with the remaining strip of cloth . |
| 19 | The moon and man stepped up to Le-eyo together , and the god became confused , saying ‘ Man , die and remain away ; moon , die and return ’ as he sprinkled them with the reversed charms . |