Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 2 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 3 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 4 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 6 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 7 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 8 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 9 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 10 | Far from resenting Lucien 's new-found favour , the other vibrancers in the house began to treat him with a new respect once his alliance with Jeopardy became common knowledge . |
| 11 | And the Cid began to encourage them with a loud voice , shouting God and Santiago ! |
| 12 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 13 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 14 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 15 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 16 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 17 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 18 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 19 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 20 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 21 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 22 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 23 | During his first week , Mrs Jordan had visited him with a homemade fruitcake . |
| 24 | The Minister of War probably had the most influential voice , for one of his officials , Dmitrii Miliutin — older brother of Nikolai , the " enlightened bureaucrat " who had redesigned St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 — had armed him with a wide-ranging and incisive brief entitled " On the danger of continuing military action in 1856 " . |
| 25 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 26 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 27 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 28 | Herluin had opened his mouth and drawn breath to ride over his presumptuous novice with a torrent of indignant words , but then held his breath even before the abbot had cautioned him with a peremptory hand . |
| 29 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 30 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |