Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 2 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 3 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 4 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 5 | Green painted them with the greatest of understanding and sensitivity . |
| 6 | Once attacked , even gentle Stan defended himself with the utmost terrier vigour , although afterwards he would shake and look very upset , while Ollie paraded , as confident as ever . |
| 7 | When Lufthansa pulled out of sponsoring the Women 's European Open , Mrs Doyle replaced them with The European newspaper . |
| 8 | Agnes got hers with the pale coffee already slopped over into the two sugar lumps and two hard little biscuits in the saucer . |
| 9 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 10 | Wolf identified himself with the existing élite of Anglo-Jewry in regarding Jewish emancipation in England as a success story , and expecting that the growth of tolerance would enable Jews elsewhere to live both within their ancestral religion and culture , and as full citizens of their respective countries . |
| 11 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 12 | Vologsky committed himself with the flat statement . |
| 13 | Urquhart held himself with the same appealing forcefulness as when he walked . |