Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 2 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 3 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 4 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 7 | I do n't see the resemblance of Stu and Paul Young though , perhaps I expected someone with Spiky hair & black leather trousers . |
| 8 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 9 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 10 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 11 | And when that one ‘ went home ’ she provided me with another one , which is still going today . |
| 12 | ‘ My baggage did n't arrive on Tuesday , either , but the airline provided me with red shorts and a red tee shirt . |
| 13 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 14 | So I er carried on with what they found me with this in the brew house and then er where did I go from there ? |
| 15 | 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 ! " |
| 16 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 17 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 18 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 19 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 20 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally my hostess , Mrs Knelle , and a theatre-going friend , Mrs Molloy , approached me with friendly smiles . |
| 23 | Sadly , it was not confined to writers and artists , for though it may be unfair to blame Nietzsche for his appropriation by Nazi ideologues , there is no question but that his doctrine of the superman and his apparent anti-semitism provided them with fertile soil . |
| 24 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then other living organisms provided them with further opportunities , and through symbiosis ( a mutually-dependent state of living together ) they created , finally , animals . |
| 29 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 30 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |