Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 2 | Roger approached her with another tall , fair man . |
| 3 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 4 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 5 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 6 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 7 | Sarah affected him with such unexpected desire he could n't understand himself . |
| 8 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 9 | Wickham quashed it with some hard questions . |
| 10 | ‘ Estella waved a blue one , and I had a red one , and Miss Havisham waved one with little gold stars on , out of the carriage window . ’ |
| 11 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 12 | Bernhart Silberysen was the mayor in charge of the restoration , and the town council presented him with this bowl in thanks . |
| 13 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 14 | Abu piloted us with all the aplomb of a sailor surging through dangerous surf , and finally brought us to an entire circular village of some sixty three-storey houses , all shaped like space-arcs . |
| 15 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 16 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 17 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 18 | Conradin hated her with all his heart , but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing . |
| 19 | Rose said it with such empathy that all criticism was stopped . |
| 20 | Although Jack was taller , Ho hit him with such force that soon Jack fell away from him and he sprang out . |
| 21 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 22 | Nowhere else have the enormous changes which the machine industry has made in our social life registered themselves with such obviousness as in the cities . |
| 23 | If only social workers and other professionals familiarized themselves with these research findings and integrated them into their everyday practice both tragedies and unwarrantable interventions could be avoided or kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 24 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 25 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |
| 26 | Modigliani painted her with such ferocity , in his shirt-sleeves , his hair all ruffled . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , he sees me , ’ Belinda told her with some spirit . |
| 28 | In the strengthening light , Cassie saw him with all the clarity and shock of their first encounter , and her flesh shivered with excitement , as it had done even then . |
| 29 | Sorry was on the tip of her tongue when a thought struck her with such force she lay back to fathom its meaning . |
| 30 | Battered and bruised — the brutal attack on Hilda Jones left her with such serious wounds to her face , that her left eye had to be removed . |