Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose bent over him with pure attention . |
| 2 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 3 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 4 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 5 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 6 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 7 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 8 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 9 | Doreen turned upon her with imperious authority . |
| 10 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 11 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 12 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 13 | And my hands , my heavy hands , they glided over her with careful diffidence , not so much touching or feeling but defining her anatomy . |
| 14 | When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety . |
| 15 | He thought it was impossible , but worked at it with eager ambition . |
| 16 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 17 | James stared about him with uninhibited curiosity , staring closely at the paintings and prints which covered the walls , poking his nose into tea caddies and picking up any object which took his fancy . |
| 18 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 19 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 20 | He thought of her with shocked tenderness and a kind of sad humility . |
| 21 | ‘ Bore da , miss , what can I get you ? ’ he asked pleasantly and his blue eyes looked into hers with obvious admiration . |
| 22 | Sabine looked round her with eager curiosity , her gaze lingering on one large central tapestry . |
| 23 | ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too . |
| 24 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 25 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 26 | Julia listened to it with professional interest , expecting the usual Nazi defence of obedience to superior orders . |
| 27 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 28 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 29 | Then they went at it with redoubled glee . |
| 30 | Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity . |