Example sentences of "with a [noun] [coord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he attacked it with a relish and enthusiasm which surprised even himself . |
| 2 | After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners . |
| 3 | THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped . |
| 4 | Robert Malcolmson 's pioneering researches have placed eigh-teenth-century recreations sociologically with a thoroughness and insight which can hardly be equalled in a general textbook . |
| 5 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 6 | Charitably , you might say they represent the struggle of a generation to come to terms with a responsibility and authority they would once have rejected . |
| 7 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 8 | The Christian writers of the Roman imperial period write with a freshness and excitement which is absent from most of the non-Christian authors . |
| 9 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 10 | In the centre of this room is a large wood-burning stove with a flue and vent which lead directly upwards , and hotplates on the top . |
| 11 | ‘ Try these , ’ he said returning with a dress and coat which he handed to her . |
| 12 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
| 13 | It was indeed waged at times with a bitterness and pettiness which did the COS no credit . |
| 14 | He moved with a grace and speed which surprised both Athelstan and his opponents . |
| 15 | But with a brother and sister whom she must look after for they had nothing left but her . |
| 16 | Such things are celebrated in his stories with a richness and unction which might appear to make a renegade of Babel and certainly of Levi . |
| 17 | They were staccato with a violence and bitterness which Sabine , stunned , guessed had been suppressed for years . |
| 18 | Other people may settle down happily : the noise means a safe background , a train on its way — eating the miles , with a rhythm and vibration which could be thought of as a loud , comforting lullaby . |
| 19 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 20 | The Disability Working Allowance is intended to help people with an illness or disability who are either already working or starting work . |
| 21 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 22 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 23 | It was just like home , really - and the tourists looked at home too , working with an urgency and precision which would put our domestic equivalents to shame . |
| 24 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |