Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 2 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 3 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 4 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |
| 5 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 6 | He saw a house , the house , almost the house a child draws in its infant school , four windows , chimney , door , garden path , lazy-daisy looped flowers in rectangular parterres , only this house was also a crudely three-dimensional flimsy box , barely containing something very large and very much alive , covered with rusty pelt , so that every aperture bulged with glowing fur , was pushed outwards , cracking , and a claw showed here on a sill , and a ripple of muscle there . |
| 7 | She tried a red-and-pink Chanel shift , a Lacroix confection splattered with turquoise roses and a long green tube by Azzedine Alaia which made her six foot , 128 lb body look like some exotic serpent . |
| 8 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 9 | Ma agreed with that . |
| 10 | Hun Sen met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and other senior Chinese leaders . |
| 11 | Mr Nightingale beamed with gentle superiority . |
| 12 | Mitch asked with real surprise . |
| 13 | Lines of eyes peeping and ogling , rows of breasts hoisted and nipples tweaked and Vaselined ; reddened mouths gaped at her , naturists demonstrated star-jumps , plump pink bottoms poked , arch looks pinned her down , and fingers crested with scarlet points beckoned . |
| 14 | Carver gazed with open admiration at her figure . |
| 15 | The storm erupted with all its force into the reception area in a whirling , roaring maelstrom of disintegrating glass shards and a wild , bellowing fury of nightmarish , mutated flesh and flailing claws . |
| 16 | A broad hand with long fingers clustered with heavy rings . |
| 17 | 22 year old Lebanese chauffuer Ali Choukeir has appeared at the Palais de Justice charged with involuntary manslaughter . |
| 18 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 19 | Hence the streets are paved with deep slabbed drains , houses plastered with stencilled reliefs of the saints and the old Mercat Cross distinguished from the present day Cross by Christ crucified in place of the later unicorn at the top . |
| 20 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 21 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 22 | Then her eyes twinkled with irrepressible mischief . |
| 23 | North-west Surrey expanded with equal vigour , particularly around Merton and Morden , which had the benefit of an underground railway service to complement the frequent electric train service elsewhere . |
| 24 | Angalo clung with one hand . |
| 25 | His eyes gleamed with sudden amusement . |
| 26 | Even in the dismal gloom , strobed by laser flashes , the boy 's green eyes gleamed with evident intelligence … and with fierce enmity … and with a kind of fascination , as he weighed the mask in his hand and stared at its former wearer , now revealed . |
| 27 | Her round blue eyes gleamed with eager speculation . |
| 28 | For , as Prior of Scone and its guardian , he bore round his neck the Brecbennoch , the little silver reliquary casket of St Columba which was all the Celtic church could bring to any battle while its Abbots of Iona and Armagh and Kells disputed with one another in the turmoil of Irish battle , Irish famine , Irish plague , demanding the grace of St Columba and first claim to the aid of his relics . |
| 29 | When his letter finally came , Mrs Fairfax announced with great excitement that he was planning a house-party at Thornfield . |
| 30 | Finally , Freud shared with early sociologists an interest in the overall development of human societies , from the most primitive group to modern societies and their possible future . |