Example sentences of "be [verb] with the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 2 | Whereas the short version makes a flat statement : where the strong stresses of sense are counterpointed with the underlying metrically rhythmical dactyls , and the half rhyme on " stark " and " harde " brings the whole description to a brutal head . |
| 3 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 4 | A potentially significant structure will be tested with the Loggerhead-1 well set for drilling in late 1992 . |
| 5 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |
| 6 | Raked expanses of shinshun — the black volcanic sand which covered great expanses of the G'bai desert to the south of the continent — were dotted with the occasional carefully pruned tree , and there were isolated rocks . |
| 7 | Each day was blessed with the same strangely cool weather , until one evening the clear sky suddenly filled with haze and the new moon faded out of sight as though sailing out of orbit into oblivion . |