Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 3 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 4 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 5 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 6 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 7 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 8 | The key to the success of such releases , though , is always that you do not have to pay for them with significant amounts of guilt or regret the next morning . |
| 9 | At higher altitudes , swifts trawl for them with open beaks . |
| 10 | He cleared his throat instead , and traced some , of the pattern on the top of the small wooden table between them with one stubby , yellow-grey finger , Ajayi said , " Perhaps we could just ask one of them . |
| 11 | Arrange one or two suitable shrubs that grow with a relaxed , arching habit , and then fill between them with large patches or drifts of herbaceous plants en masse . |
| 12 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
| 13 | Christmas has come early for me with this one — another mysterious release that planted itself firmly on the Vibes desk . |
| 14 | They walked through sad places where small coloured children sat on doorsteps , too depressed and apathetic to play games , and stared after them with huge black eyes in which the tropic sun was extinguished . |
| 15 | ‘ I would look after her with loving care , Mr Wormwood , and I would pay for everything . |
| 16 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 17 | She stared down at the disgusting mass as it came away in her hand for a moment and then she marched after him with pursed lips and a determined gleam in her eyes . |
| 18 | You 'll never make it , ’ roared Rocky and took off after him with surprising speed for one of his size and bulk . |
| 19 | Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag . |
| 20 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 21 | He raised his head and turned towards me with clouded eyes . |
| 22 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 23 | Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed . |
| 24 | Trailing past me with all its frights , its eyes |
| 25 | You 'll be the death of me with all your questions . ’ |
| 26 | Suddenly , out of a dark doorway , a figure stepped and stood in front of me with open arms . |
| 27 | They would take the mickey out of me with sickening enthusiasm . |
| 28 | ‘ For a typical utterance , the word recogniser hypothesizes 20 incorrect words in the same time interval as each correct word , 4 of them with higher confidence ratings . |
| 29 | In the same publication as Belshaw ( 1979 ) , there are some other interesting examples of the deleterious effects of exogenous technologies upon indigenous ones in lesser developed countries many of them with strong implications for soil erosion , particularly Swift ( 1979 ) and Richards ( 1979 ) . |
| 30 | They may , perhaps , legitimately be so viewed when sexual satisfaction becomes totally dependent upon them to a point at which they take the place of the interpersonal psycho-genital stimuli to which most of us are subject ; or , as in one or two instances , when they are so grossly in departure from presently accepted norms that no correlation of them with accepted stimuli and practices is possible . |