Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 5 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 6 | While it may be pleasant to have a young exuberant puppy bounding out to greet you with great enthusiasm , you do not want a large adult dog behaving in a similar fashion , leaping up and bowling people onto the floor . |
| 7 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 8 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 9 | Jenna slept late and arrived downstairs next day feeling guilty and flustered , very glad that Alain was not there to pin her with merciless dark eyes . |