Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 2 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 3 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 4 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 5 | And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’ |
| 6 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 7 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 8 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 9 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 10 | I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others . |
| 11 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 13 | British exporters have been extremely successful and that is because the Government have provided them with the right framework for success . |
| 14 | My flocks of thought have dispersed and become lost for I have not marked them with the branding iron of the images . |
| 15 | To aid her in such a duty Nature has wisely provided her with the sexual appetite slightly developed ’ . |
| 16 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 17 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 18 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 19 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 20 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 21 | ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’ |
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