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Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground .
2	No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty .
3	Rose bent over him with pure attention .
4	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 ’ .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	He came towards her with outstretched hand .
8	Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God .
9	‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications .
10	And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up .
11	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 .
12	Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy .
13	Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth .
14	He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side .
15	Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head .
16	I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol .
17	Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it .
18	He raised his head and turned towards me with clouded eyes .
19	Doreen turned upon her with imperious authority .
20	Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches .
21	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 .
22	She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks .
23	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 .
24	The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet .
25	The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement .
26	Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest .
27	And my hands , my heavy hands , they glided over her with careful diffidence , not so much touching or feeling but defining her anatomy .
28	When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety .
29	He thought it was impossible , but worked at it with eager ambition .
30	It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again .