Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 2 | Whereas America has visitors with little bodies and big heads , Russia has them with big bodies and little heads . |
| 3 | Her hair changes from dark green in the water to bright gold when she emerges , and she dresses it with fine jewelled ornaments from her underwater palace . |
| 4 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 5 | Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife . |
| 6 | The idea of sub-contracting an exhibition piece now fills me with abject horror . |
| 7 | Ryes and rye-wheat hybrids are sometimes prone to ergot — a fungus disease that destroys the individual grains and replaces them with black spores which look like mouse droppings . |
| 8 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 9 | Misery acquaints one with strange employment . |
| 10 | She contents herself with short , heartfelt abuse of the dickhead kind . |
| 11 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 12 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 13 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
| 14 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 15 | A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women . |
| 16 | Anyone who 's attacked who is very old or very young fills us with deep concern . |
| 17 | Downstairs , in the crypt , Toni Halliday is carefully painting a red dot on her forehead while Curve guitarist Alex regales us with unlikely tales of cockroaches the size of dachshunds in his flat at home after spotting a standard one moving about their dressing room ‘ john ’ and a dead one upturned next to the lockers . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , you take in too few calories ( that is , your diet supplies you with insufficient fuel to meet your energy requirements ) you will draw on stored fuel . |
| 19 | When the Savage Orcs go to war their shaman marks them with tribal tattoos using a strong magical concoction . |
| 20 | It assaults you with raw power , deafens you with engine and wind noise , roasts you in the stark cockpit . |
| 21 | Designers ' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home , but concerns itself with interior design as a whole . |
| 22 | Finally , of the other 20 , there is a whole miscellany , of which the most interesting concerns itself with monastic products ; however , as these are Trappist , presumably the less said , the better ! |
| 23 | It concerns itself with domestic UK employment and output arising from Scotch Whisky . |
| 24 | Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring . |
| 25 | There is also a softer side , which has evolved far beyond the fighting form and concerns itself with psychological and physical development It is called tai chi chuan or the ‘ grand ultimate fist ’ . |
| 26 | Rather , one public health official wrote : ‘ The fly seeks filth wherever it may be found , setting out from its foul breeding place , it feasts at your privy , and greets you with unwashed lips and unwiped feet in your parlour and at your dining table . ’ |
| 27 | The Libro de Madrigali ( Venice , 1568 ) of Mateo Flecha the younger ( 1530–1604 ) includes one with Spanish text , and Joan Brudieu ( C. 1520–1591 ) published a collection of eleven Spanish and four Catalan madrigals ( Barcelona , 1585 ) , while a few negligible composers set Italian texts . |
| 28 | CROWDS are flocking to see a painting of the Queen which shows her with grey hairs , worry lines and crows ' feet . |
| 29 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 30 | His slightly pedantic manner is n't perhaps quite what 's wanted for the part , but he has studied it closely , sings it with unfailing musicality , as regards intonation , note values , dynamics and phrasing , and in Ac ; t 3 catches most of Tristan 's desperation and longing . |