Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday , 8 September , Coleman got to work with Asmar in his office at Karintina . |
| 2 | Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly . |
| 3 | It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy . |
| 4 | There was the church , which she helped to decorate with holly , mistletoe , evergreens . |
| 5 | A county member in 1625 , he proposed to break with precedent by granting the new king tunnage and poundage for one year only . |
| 6 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 7 | Diamonds formed the wide mouth so that the little creature seemed to grin with light . |
| 8 | Her whole body seemed to tingle with expectation . |
| 9 | There were two entire sections of medical works , mostly in French , including many — they hardly seemed to go with spiritualism — on psychiatry , and another two of scientific books of all kinds ; several shelves of philosophical works , and also a fair number of botanical and ornithological books , mostly in English and German ; but the great majority of the rest were autobiographies and biographies . |
| 10 | Craig Maskell scored his second goal , and when the 21-year-old striker helped Mike Cecere to bring the teams level even the deserted Cowshed , with its condemned roof , seemed to shake with emotion . |
| 11 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 12 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |
| 13 | The atmosphere seemed to vibrate with tension . |
| 14 | Then Lili laughed and seemed to gleam with deathlessness and , I thought , the pride of life . |
| 15 | Just then there was a crash and a roar from reception , and Tracey seemed to shrink with fear . |
| 16 | She had a long , narrow and strong-boned face , its severity softened by her eyes which seemed to glow with laughter and sense . |
| 17 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her , and seemed to glow with fury , their brown tint lightening almost to gold . |
| 18 | They seemed to range themselves behind her mother somehow , their portraits , hung either side of the huge stone fireplace , seemed to glow with energy and disapproval . |
| 19 | Her voice seemed to fray with foreboding ; it was as if , Ruth thought , Gran had forbidden herself to speak . |
| 20 | ‘ Has anyone … ’ his voice seemed to emerge with difficulty and he cleared his throat , began again , ‘ Has anyone ever told you that you look very much like the women in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings ? ’ |
| 21 | But behind his large smiles and large cigars , his eyes often seemed to brim with regret . |
| 22 | And apart from football results and local scandals , most of the stories seemed to deal with dock riots , railway strikes , suffragettes throwing themselves under horses , derelicts in the London embankment and half a million children ill-fed and diseased . |
| 23 | She seemed to beam with happiness in his presence and hang on every word he said . |
| 24 | And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness . |
| 25 | They thrust and tensed with delight in their own intricate machinery of bones and sinews , as the ribs that sprang from the piers of the nave seemed to quiver with joy in their own energy . |
| 26 | Feeling unutterably depressed , she wandered round the empty cottage that seemed to echo with loneliness . |
| 27 | With Cranston bouncing along the Nightingale Gallery , the whole house seemed to sing with noise . |
| 28 | Yes , and then my father , when he had recovered a bit , he came to live with Grandma . |
| 29 | Then suddenly he seemed to explode with anger . |
| 30 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |