Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] with [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 2 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 3 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 4 | As he ran back to climb into his seat , she thanked God for blessing her with such a healthy and adorable son . |
| 5 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 6 | He began to kiss her fingers , one by one , and Meredith gazed helplessly at him , knowing she loved him with such a sudden , painful realisation that she groaned aloud . |
| 7 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 8 | His exclamation endorsed her suspicion , but why should he be regarding her with such a look of furious triumph on his face ? |
| 9 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 10 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 11 | The subject fascinated him ; he always talked about money ; but did it with such an ingenuous enthusiasm that the effect was not alienating . |
| 12 | And this is a way for to fill up our purse Although we do get it with many a curse And the poem ends : Then hay for the Clothing Trade , it goes on brave ; We scorn for to toyl and moyl , nor yet to starve . |
| 13 | You do n't get it with half a Jaffa Cake . |
| 14 | I saw a woman preparing it with such a stick as is used for chocolate , and in the same manner . ’ |
| 15 | There 's no point leaving him with half a harem , and there 's no way of telling who 's important and who 's not . ’ |
| 16 | Winnicott provides us with such a concept . |