Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 2 | We had left John last night at the club , and I wondered with a quailing sensation when he had got home . |
| 3 | Their bodies joined in rhythmic unison , and she thought with a swift , delirious stab of pleasure , How can any man ever compare with you ? |
| 4 | And she added with a dead laugh , ‘ We 've been what my aunt calls celebrating . |
| 5 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 6 | She was a big woman , tall and gaunt , and she spoke with a gruff , masculine voice . |
| 7 | And he rode with a jewelled twinkle , |
| 8 | His boots were up to the thigh , and he rode with a jewelled twinkle , his pistols but a twinkle , his rapier hilt a twinkle under the jewelled sky . |
| 9 | He said it in English , slowly , as though enjoying the sound of the words , and he added with a secret little smile , ‘ That happened just before he was recalled at the request of Lami Dozo himself . |
| 10 | His hand circled around the fullness of her breast , and he squeezed with a gentle possessiveness that did violence to her breathing . |
| 11 | A stage-hand upset him and he replied with a withering flow of invective , the kind for which he was not generally known . |
| 12 | Precisely what she disliked most about them was what interested him ; she knew that he wondered whether they could be persuaded to become sleeping partners in the revolution a phrase which she used and he approved with a dry smile and a nod . |
| 13 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 14 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 15 | She heard John draw a sharp breath beside her but she spoke with a bright-eyed defiance , not to Lord Wyatt but at the crowd behind him , noting with pleasure their discomfiture and annoyance . |
| 16 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 17 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 18 | ‘ The same thing happened to Arsenal last season after Benfica knocked them out , of the European Cup , but they came with a late run and it 's up to us to do the same . |
| 19 | She greeted him warmly but he responded with a perfunctory nod and immediately got up to leave . |
| 20 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 21 | Whether he guessed what I was likely to say I do n't know , but he spoke with a sudden rush as if to prevent me from saying something that we would both have to accept and talk about . |
| 22 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 23 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 24 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |