Example sentences of "[verb] with [adj] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all those who had silently wished with all their might that they might dare challenge the hegemony of dowdiness took to ‘ Next ’ like ducks to water . |
| 2 | She was praying with all her heart that he would n't be too hurt . |
| 3 | By a miracle I found I could do it : standing upright on the pedals and pedalling with all my might I reached the road , where Nora was waiting for me . |
| 4 | The storm erupted with all its force into the reception area in a whirling , roaring maelstrom of disintegrating glass shards and a wild , bellowing fury of nightmarish , mutated flesh and flailing claws . |
| 5 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 6 | How was such malignant hatred brought to birth , when he had meant nothing but good , and tried with all his soul to work no evil against them ? |
| 7 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 8 | Leaning forward into the harness and pushing with all my might , I could not move . |
| 9 | And yet , she believed with all her heart that there was a great deal of goodness in the boy , buried beneath the sorrow and the hurt . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 11 | And now the man who yearned with all his heart for all his life to be a woman and who is just months away from radical surgery wants to remain a man . |
| 12 | It was the ball the girls were playing with , which Ruth , who was a big girl , had thumped with all her might . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case what did she do with all her money ? |
| 14 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 15 | One Bible passage says : ‘ If you seek the Lord your God , you will find him if you look with all your heart and with all your soul . ’ |
| 16 | I push the man 's behind up , liking with all my might . |
| 17 | You will want to talk to our Mr Wyatt , the assistant manager and function controller , who deals with all our function bookings . |
| 18 | He made me work with all his might |
| 19 | A great place to play with all your family . |
| 20 | Grabbing his bike from the hedge where he 'd hidden it , Jack raced with all his might , his long , gangling legs pumping for all they were worth . |
| 21 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
| 22 | He managed to get one hand on the leash , pulling with all his strength , his other locked in Gomez 's shirt . |
| 23 | Rather than tensing up and pulling with all your arm strength , simply use your weight to do the work for you by leaning on your arms with a straight back . |
| 24 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 25 | The crowd jingled with all their wealth . |
| 26 | ‘ This is the time , and I am saying what I mean with all my heart . |
| 27 | Every word he spoke was true ; but she fought with all her will against the impulse to agree to his face . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most unusual feature of the Exhibition , is the re-creation of part of the pharaoh 's tomb , including the antechamber , filled with all its treasure as discovered in 1922 . |
| 29 | Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt . |
| 30 | Compared with 1990 our bank interest received has reduced from £450,000 a year to approximately £150,000 . ’ |