Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] 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 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. ’ |
| 8 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 9 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 10 | And when that one ‘ went home ’ she provided me with another one , which is still going today . |
| 11 | ‘ My baggage did n't arrive on Tuesday , either , but the airline provided me with red shorts and a red tee shirt . |
| 12 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 ! " |
| 15 | Emily regarded them with cynical appraisal . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 18 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 19 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Finally my hostess , Mrs Knelle , and a theatre-going friend , Mrs Molloy , approached me with friendly smiles . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then other living organisms provided them with further opportunities , and through symbiosis ( a mutually-dependent state of living together ) they created , finally , animals . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day . |
| 30 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |