Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 2 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 3 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 'd better provide you with toasted teacakes as well , ’ said Amiss sympathetically . |
| 5 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 6 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 7 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 8 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 10 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 11 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 12 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |
| 13 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 14 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 15 | But I 'll not bore you with second-hand accounts of the way he lives . |
| 16 | However , and with great irony , it was the Government 's cuts which led to the virtual abandonment of the Council 's housing policy since the Council decided that whereas it was cheaper to service houses in groups , it was even cheaper and perhaps even permissible not to provide them with certain expensive services at all . |
| 17 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
| 18 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 19 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 20 | In the event , inhabitants of Štanjel , although they were certainly not unkind to him , did not exactly welcome him with open arms . |
| 21 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 22 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 23 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 24 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 25 | He did n't react , just watched her with deep concern . |
| 26 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 27 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 28 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 29 | Section 240 seeks to ensure that recipients of the latter will not confuse them with statutory accounts . |
| 30 | Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth . |