Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 3 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 4 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 5 | I brought grim news , and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure . |
| 6 | ‘ I treated it with a three-month course of Danocrine , followed by surgery which was necessary by this time , but was only effective and permanent because of the follow-up Danocrine treatment . ’ |
| 7 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 8 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 9 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 10 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 11 | I replaced it with a reconditioned Jaguar 4.2 pump , which made it fly . |
| 12 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 13 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 14 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 15 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 16 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 17 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 18 | She passed him with a fractional quickening of her pace . |
| 19 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 20 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 21 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 22 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 23 | She fixed him with a glittering emerald stare . |
| 24 | She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 26 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 29 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 30 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |