Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 2 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 3 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 4 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 5 | His owner , Jeremy Young admitted repeatedly shooting him with an air rifle at his home in Princes Risborough . |
| 6 | The Sheikh spoke quietly to his chauffeur , then stepped forward to acknowledge them with a courteous inclination of the head . |
| 7 | When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 9 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 10 | And she had rarely met anyone with a sharper eye , or a truer judgement on people . |
| 11 | William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park . |
| 12 | But he was troubled ; his low birth had hitherto endowed him with a most precious obscurity to sweeten with sons and with the presence of his God . |
| 13 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
| 14 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 15 | Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station . |
| 16 | She had somehow identified herself with the Tremayne household . |
| 17 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 18 | His education had also left him with a love for all things English . |
| 19 | He had nearly saddled himself with a desperate , thirty-one-year-old fan . |
| 20 | Early maternal deprivation had clearly left him with a hankering for mother figures in his life and I was n't the first . |
| 21 | The Major had scotched his suggestion when he mentioned it to him over lunch , but the Under-Secretary 's unexpected decision had now left them with no alternative . |
| 22 | Miguel had really entrusted her with a great secret . |
| 23 | In Head , Nicholson had kindly provided them with a suicide note for which Mike Nesmith was eternally grateful . |
| 24 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 25 | She had never seen him with an umbrella before . |