Example sentences of "[adj] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
2 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
3 | She blinked rapidly now ; then , her face becoming suffused with an anger that seemed to send out rays of heat towards him , she cried , ‘ Yes , I hear you . |
4 | Blair again converted , and just after the break out half Keith Megarry took over the kicking duties to put Dungannon 20 points clear with a penalty . |
5 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
6 | Plucky Liz Dawson , 11 , lifted a 180lb camping trailer with ONE HAND and dragged eight-year-old Lynnette clear with the other . |
7 | So clean was the tackle that he was able to dispossess the player and race clear with the ball . |
8 | She stole the time to brush them clear with the side of her hand then slipped back inside , hoping no-one would notice her . |
9 | The direction of Bentley 's evolution became clear with the launch of the Mulsanne Turbo R , which , with its huge power and improved suspension , at last re-established the marque 's engineering credibility and its standing with younger and more enthusiastic owner-drivers . |
10 | Prime Computer Inc has now filed for its expected return as a public company — under which it will change its name to Computervision Corp , and intends to offer 15.8m shares at a target price of $18 to $20 , concurrent with an offer of $125m of senior notes due 1999 . |
11 | The problem is to understand how permission can be represented by let as concurrent with the event permitted , as suggested by our hypothesis on the bare infinitive . |
12 | A further 5.1 per cent devaluation against the US dollar took place on Dec. 9 , concurrent with the issue of a new 100,000 córdoba note . |
13 | The bare infinitives are used to refer to reactions concurrent with the contemplation of the scene which the person in question has before his eyes , spontaneous reactions , leaving no room for reflection . |
14 | Here we report a precise U-Pb age of 852Myr for zircons in a veined and metasomatized harzburgite xenolith from Kimberley , which indicates that this particular style of metasomatism ( MARID-related ) is concurrent with the migration of the kimberlite magma that hosts the xenolith . |
15 | Concurrent with the building of the earliest , a timber grave chamber was constructed beneath its floor to receive the decomposed remains of a middle-aged man . |
16 | Concurrent with the growth of this car-based retailing , many people have observed a steady decline in traditional forms of town-centre retailing . |
17 | Concurrent with the arrest of Guiding Lights , a combined police and customs task force swooped on twenty five addresses in London to unearth a further cache of over two tons of cannabis in a garage . |
18 | Three drivers will be burning their L-plates tonight after passing their driving tests first time , but , as John Kane , reports besides needing good road sense the men had to be pretty nifty with a shovel full of coal . |
19 | In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary . |
20 | She said she was beaten almost daily with a horse whip or flex until she bled , forced to sleep on the floor and kept without food , sometimes for two or three days . |
21 | Dirt had obscured the postmark , but it was machine-franked with no stamp . |
22 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |
23 | The moves up to gain the famous Bower ledge are nothing less than brutal with the corner crack first expanding to chimney-like proportions then closing again to slim finger-crack holds . |
24 | He says ; Once one of them says we will go with him then they will all go because they will stick together but I was very suprised with the ammount of people that go . |
25 | He looked up at that big beautiful canopy of silk billowing above him , the brilliant white contrasting with the blue of the sky . |
26 | It was dim with the atmosphere of all old barns — straw , dust , and in this case too the sweet smell of stored apples . |
27 | ‘ Well , whatever it is … ’ his voice was thick , unsteady with the depth of desire he was ruthlessly suppressing ‘ … this stops right now … ’ |
28 | I 've always had an ear for accents , and I gave them my best German and Italian and my speciality : French with a hint of Punjabi . |
29 | I rejoined the group and we were all tingling and aglow with the experience . |
30 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |