Example sentences of "to [pron] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many potential employers complain that applicants come to them with a poor knowledge of what the job involves and no particular interest in the company . |
| 2 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 3 | She turned to them with a glowing smile . |
| 4 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 5 | When the red light went out after my closing announcement , Mr Murray turned to me with a broad grin ‘ Was that all right ? ’ he asked , and I shook his hand acknowledging his ad-lib masterpiece . |
| 6 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 7 | Turner , Ministry 's heavily tattooed bone tech , was sitting next to me with a small sparrow 's skull placed next to his beer on the table . |
| 8 | The punk would turn to me with a conspiratorial grin — hey , man , it 's you and me against the world , eh ? — then shift the bus across with his knee . |
| 9 | But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance . |
| 10 | As the lock slid shut , she turned to me with a merry grin . |
| 11 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 12 | I am willing to talk to anyone who comes to me with a proposed solution that they believe the House would accept — including the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West and other Labour Members . |
| 13 | I remarked on this once to Mr Dakin and the old man turned to me with a wry smile . |
| 14 | Leonora clenched her teeth for an instant as her body yielded to his with a fleeting moment of pain , then she relaxed as they lay still for an instant in the very eye of the storm . |
| 15 | Kneeling across him , she joined her body to his with a little gasp until he sat and touched his mouth to hers . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 17 | But Jock has seen that other ‘ careers ’ are available to someone with a good command of himself . |
| 18 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 19 | To someone with a high fever , time passes slowly . |
| 20 | While it is the responsibility of your seller-client to prepare the plan where necessary ( and do n't be persuaded to take on this heavy responsibility in your client 's stead ) you should , as the conveyancer , scrutinise what is handed to you with a critical eye coupled with your knowledge of the title and the property . |
| 21 | A : If you already have a Sun Alliance Hospital Income policy , which was also offered to you with a guaranteed acceptance , you will not be able to claim benefits under both policies . |
| 22 | And of course the Collection comes to you with a written Guarantee assuring you of satisfactory playing condition or free replacement without question — and with a fascinating illustrated booklet telling you all about the stars and songs featured . |
| 23 | Like acid and E , cannabis can cause psychosis to anybody with a disturbed personality , although this only occurs in extreme cases . |
| 24 | I wonder , she said to herself with a sudden lurch of her heart , I wonder if I 'm embarking on something I shall not be able to stop ? |
| 25 | Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account . |
| 26 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 27 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 28 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 29 | This is one where I put the price up and then we went and wrote to him with a net price list showing a lower price than I 'd put up and we had to reduce it . |
| 30 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |