Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 2 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 3 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 4 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 5 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 6 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 9 | • If you 're buying fish which are normally kept in brackish conditions , such as Mollies , Puffers and some Gobies , do n't automatically assume that your dealer is stocking them with added salt . |
| 10 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 11 | Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 15 | The man was regarding her with natural surprise . |
| 16 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 17 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |