Example sentences of "[pron] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 2 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 3 | It does rather spoil the fun , though , when the spoof is too obvious — the one in the 31 March issue was so obviously naive and reckless in its content that it could not possibly have fooled anybody with even a grain of sense . |
| 4 | Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty , changing into second gear as she rounded a bend . |
| 5 | He says it 's better to live in a town without too many cars with everybody with just a bike . |
| 6 | She walked over to the rail and leant her forearms on it as she stared across the river , and drew in a shuddery little breath , hating the fact that Luke could make her so aware of him with just a look . |
| 7 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 8 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 9 | Say no to sweets in the privacy of your kitchen and they may accept it with scarcely a murmur . |
| 10 | First , major constitutional and political pronouncement though it was , certain to be studied and analysed for years to come , he delivered it with hardly a note . |