Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] with [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 2 | He made his way through the twisting streets of the harbour district , crossing the little squares where the market traders were spreading linen sheets on the ground before decking them with neat conical piles of vegetables and spices whose reds , yellows and greens shone out brightly against the white . |
| 3 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 4 | As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A more common way in which the simulation of the old computer can be improved is to select heavily used portions of the simulator program and replace them with individual specialized instructions ( such as for instruction fetching and decoding ) ; these new instructions are then implemented in microcode . |
| 7 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 8 | ‘ They are going to try me with small artificial legs to start with and once I get my balance they will give me bigger ones . ’ |
| 9 | COHSE , the RCN , and the HVA all offer indemnity insurance schemes , and your local steward should be able to provide you with specific written details of this . |
| 10 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 13 | By the time Nina was five , though , Ricci was sharing fewer nuts with her , but had started to provide her with convenient wooden hammers and uncracked nuts , thus stimulating Nina to start cracking nuts on her own . |
| 14 | Last Friday 's ruling concerned the case of a 14-year-old dyslexic boy from Salford , Greater Manchester , who claimed that his education authority had failed in its statutory duty to provide him with adequate extra lessons to help him cope with his disability . |
| 15 | The backfill in the quarry was varied , comprising areas of clay , weathered shale and domestic refuse and it was necessary to remove all of this material and replace it with suitable granular material . |
| 16 | IF you 're nervous about icing the cake , decorate it with glazed dried fruits instead — or buy some ready-made fondant icing and pipe it over , then decorate with silver balls . |
| 17 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 18 | Her hair changes from dark green in the water to bright gold when she emerges , and she dresses it with fine jewelled ornaments from her underwater palace . |
| 19 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 20 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 21 | Plain white tiles are the cheapest : brighten them up with coloured grouting , or mix them with other plain tiles to build up an eye-catching pattern |
| 22 | The British initially negotiated with the Vichy authorities and showed no enthusiasm for replacing them with Free French officials , and in the end made belated concessions to appease Free French sensibilities . |
| 23 | He studied her with hooded blue eyes . |
| 24 | Mazowiecki finally won backing from the Sejm to remove Marek Kucharski from the Communications portfolio , replacing him with fellow Democratic Party ( SD ) member Jan Wiktor Slezak . |
| 25 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
| 26 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 27 | After this build-up of the neocortex as the organ endowing us with superior mental functions , it is time to see what messages are actually passed along its nerve fibres . |
| 28 | Likewise young females have the problem of choosing mates that will provide them with vigorous young and possibly the assistance they need to rear them . |
| 29 | Inside the hall I 'm quickly surrounded by friendly eager lads in makeshift punk clothes covered in punky badges , who hungrily batter me with curious searching questions . |
| 30 | The husband will be presumed , in the ordinary case where husband and wife live together , and she orders goods to meet the household needs , to have authorized her to pledge his credit for that purpose , unless he has supplied her with sufficient ready money . |