Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
| 2 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 3 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
| 4 | Steve pulled the duvet over the two of them and began fiddling with the remote control . |
| 5 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 6 | Some Australians came out of the shower room and began arguing with the merry sub-human guard : |
| 7 | Gedge was keen to keep parents and old friends informed and began corresponding with the local paper , The Middleton Guardian . |
| 8 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 9 | Ulysse and Brutus , both low-ranking males , soon moved in and started eating with the dominant females , who showed no aggression towards them . |
| 10 | And while the Pitts-buggers went wild with delight , Uncle Mick went wild with frustration , and started to remonstrate with the biggest of the pack . |
| 11 | Existing coastal defence structures will have to be raised and strengthened to cope with the mean sea-level rise and increased height of storm surges . |
| 12 | When the Palestinian revolt broke out in 1936 , Abdallah secretly urged Britain to exile Palestinian leaders , and offered to work with the Jewish Agency to sabotage intervention by other Arab states . |
| 13 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been better if he 'd killed me , and had done with the whole thing ! |
| 15 | He had prowled contentedly in and out of the vestry and bellroom while she got on with her chores , had watched critically while she had arranged her six daffodils eked out with foliage in the vase at the foot of the Virgin , and had viewed with the bland indifference of childhood Miss Wharton 's frequent genuflections , obviously taking these sudden bobbings to be one more manifestation of the peculiar antics of adults . |
| 16 | He was an artist with the knife , she had heard , and had apprenticed with the great Zarathustra at GenTech BioDiv before his ‘ suspension . ’ |
| 17 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 18 | Before 1945 Korean Marxists had cooperated with the Soviet Union from bases in Soviet far eastern territories and had worked with the Chinese communists at Yenan . |
| 19 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 20 | The orang caretakers asked Wartaputra to honour his agreement and refused to cooperate with the new plans . |
| 21 | He was immediately given extended leave to undergo psychiatric therapy but refused to cooperate with the medical staff and was retired from Delta at his own request a month after he returned to work . |