Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 2 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 3 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 4 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 5 | The Barons in England were furious at John and they presented him with the Great Charter — Magna Carta — prepared by Archbishop Langston , to which John authorised the attachment of his seal at Runnymede , beside the River Thames , in June 1215 . |
| 6 | TWO friends of Cadbury 's Flake model Rachel Brown last night denied they supplied her with the deadly drug Ecstasy . |