Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
2 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
3 | It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision . |
4 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
5 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
6 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
7 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
8 | The detainer is liable for any damage caused to the livestock by failure to treat it with reasonable care and supply it with adequate food and water . |
9 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
10 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
11 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
12 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
13 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
14 | Check all the facts and refute them with sound evidence . |
15 | Will my hon. Friend emphasise that Labour 's only policy on air pollution is to abolish nuclear power and replace it with coal-fired power — the net consequence of which could be only a massive increase in global warming ? |
16 | They must be a priority target group , so we can prevent exploitation and discrimination and provide them with adequate training in health and safety and other matters . |
17 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
18 | Note that , following completion of the buy-out , both Newco and Target 's accounting periods must also correspond , especially if group relief is being relied upon to fund Newco 's liability to meet interest payments to its investors and provide it with tax-efficient servicing of interest on its debt . |
19 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
20 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
21 | The idea is to take plutonium and mix it with unenriched uranium . |
22 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
23 | Now , as she prepared to close the window , the robin returned , standing only inches from her hand and eyeing her with great deliberation , his tiny head cocked to one side and his bright eyes glinting in the sunshine . |
24 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
25 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
26 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
27 | The company has since made a remarkable recovery by clearing out its middle management ranks and replacing them with semi-autonomous work teams . |
28 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
29 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
30 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |