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

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1 you met me with an exalted smile
2 What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity .
3 ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette .
4 Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage .
5 Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot .
6 His detailed and systematic accumulation of electoral information provided him with an unsurpassed knowledge of constituencies and candidates and greatly contributed to the efficient Conservative organization which triumphed in 1841 .
7 The plebiscitary acclamation which could always be mobilized by Hitler provided him with an unassailable base of popularity , and as such offered the regime legitimation both within Germany and in the eyes of foreign powers , allowing the scope for further mobilization and a gathering momentum of Nazi policy .
8 The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry .
9 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 ’ .
10 Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband .
11 She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh .
12 Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression .
13 He stopped her with an impatient gesture .
14 He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings .
15 But in practice positivists almost invariably worked uncritically and unquestioningly with the products of the existing legal definitions ; by default , they endowed them with an objective status .
16 The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past .
17 In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage .
18 The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her .
19 In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis .
20 Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ .
21 He hated illness , hated it with an inner anger as though sickness were a devil attacking his life , his plans for his future , his energy .
22 He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her .
23 He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge .
24 Len Seager had been conscious throughout the entire rescue operation and as Rachel joined him briefly in the back of the ambulance and covered him with an extra blanket he managed another smile .
25 Ruth interrupted him with an embittered laugh .
26 The appointment , held until 1670 , associated him with an energetic department and Duncombe here acquired a modest reputation for administrative skills .
27 Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes .
28 Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had .
29 Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway .
30 The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot .
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