Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 2 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 3 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 4 | Tom related the tale for the second time and followed it with the daring exploits of Pecos Bill from the comic Willie had chosen . |
| 5 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 6 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 7 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
| 8 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 9 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 10 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 11 | It goes without saying that he did not serve scrambled eggs with smoked haddock , he cooked the haddock first , flaked it , and mixed it with the beaten eggs before cooking them . |
| 12 | IBM developed SQL , a non-procedural data definition language , and launched it with the original SQL/DS under DOS/VSE back in 1980 . |
| 13 | Something similar happened in Vienna later , when the Emperor Franz Josef ordered the removal of the city 's walls , and replaced them with the famous Ring , with its parks , university , public buildings and what is now the Vienna State Opera . |
| 14 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 15 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 16 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |
| 17 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 18 | Father bought the cheeses on a counter-account with Mrs Thomas : he took the cheeses she made and supplied her with the equivalent value of goods and animal foods . |
| 19 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |