Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 2 | Not only had its hold been too strong for that among considerable sections of the population , but the conditions of the immediate post-war era were miserable enough for many to compare them unfavourably with the peacetime era under Nazism . |
| 3 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 4 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 6 | ‘ I see you still do n't trust me alone with the Knudsen , ’ she commented acidly , as she complied with his instructions . |
| 7 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 8 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 9 | To start with I used them straight with no water and sharpened the leads to a fine point to draw the outline . |
| 10 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 11 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 12 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 13 | It moved sinuously , dancing round its adversary , thrusting with a slender spear and protecting itself gracefully with a brightly-polished shield . |
| 14 | It is also the case that , in practice , social purpose Adult Education has frequently concerned itself exclusively with the small minority of politically active , leftist members of the working class , usually , though not always , via trade union education . |
| 15 | ‘ Send him away with a flea in his ear . |
| 16 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 17 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think I have had the pleasure of meeting you before , ’ she said , transferring Flossie 's lead to her left hand and entangling it dangerously with the milk can , whilst proffering her right . |
| 19 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 20 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 21 | ‘ Say it again with a smile in your voice , ’ ordered Cal . |
| 22 | Directors say it silkily with a Jaguar or a Mercedes . |
| 23 | The spent kick slaps down near your leading foot and you hook it away with the crook of your ankle . |
| 24 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 25 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 26 | I associate myself also with the remarks made by the Opposition Chief Whip about the dignity with which the hon. and learned Gentleman has borne himself in adversity . |
| 27 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 28 | The new York Times declared that in his White Revolution he had " aligned himself directly with the workers and peasant against conservatives and traditionalists " . |
| 29 | John McAdam ( 1756 – 1836 ) concerned himself less with the bed of the road and more with drainage . |
| 30 | Hobhouse concerned himself directly with the evolution of mind at a time when the behaviourist dogma had not yet arrived to inhibit such a discussion . |