Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun] " 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 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 8 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 9 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 10 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
| 11 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems . |
| 16 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
| 17 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
| 18 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 19 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 20 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 21 | And studied her with deathless agape . |
| 22 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
| 23 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
| 24 | We 've put together some great hairstyle ideas and teamed them with beautiful outfits and accessories . |
| 25 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 26 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 27 | He groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the stairs , located the large brass handle and turned it with both hands . |
| 28 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 29 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 30 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |