Example sentences of "[adj] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aged 25 to 30 with a broad build and a local accent . |
| 2 | ‘ We know we are producing our best cars , so we are backing this with a simple offer to refund the price for unhappy customers , ’ said Jaguar president Michael Dale . |
| 3 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 4 | All this with a thudding heart , hot flushes and the school run ? |
| 5 | These slightly-raise the dissolved salt content , but offset this with a radically-improved pH stabilising effect . |
| 6 | Would I get better fuel consumption by replacing this with a four speed auto box and if so how can this be done ? |
| 7 | Agfa have done just this with a genuine Adobe PostScript RIP for their Matrix range although , at £12,000 , it 's not a cheap upgrade . |
| 8 | If there is anxiety about your child being unable to express painful thoughts and feelings , it could be helpful to do this with a professional person , such as a therapist or psychologist . |
| 9 | It does this with a strong suck and , since the bait is usually on a hair-rig , the hook is also drawn well into the mouth . |
| 10 | Combine this with a padded tongue and further support around the lower foot area and you end up with a darn comfy shoe . |
| 11 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 12 | However , I do use this with a certain amount of common sense . |
| 13 | You can still use your creamy cleansing milk at night to remove make-up , but follow this with a facial wash or bar . |
| 14 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 15 | Until recently , I was just amazed that I was doing this with a reasonable amount of success . |
| 16 | Make a cast of this with a suitable filler , remove it from the mould when set , and clean it with a file and glasspaper until it matches the original moulding . |
| 17 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 18 | John-Augustus noted all this with a perverse pleasure . |
| 19 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 20 | James discussed this with a technical officer , and together they converted a very powerful hearing-aid ( now useless to James ) into an amplifier of vibration which could be felt . |
| 21 | Evaluation of the Trust 's activities was undertaken principally via a questionnaire of a sample of past clients ( n=78 , a response rate of 39 percent ) , supplementing this with a systematic monitoring of enquiries at the Powys Self Help office ( using self record diaries over a two week period ) and conducting interviews with individuals associated with the organisation . |
| 22 | Senate amendments replaced this with a two-tiered formula guaranteeing a minimum of 13 weeks and allowed unemployed workers in every state to qualify for extended benefits retroactive to March 1 ( 18 states were excluded from this provision in the House bill ) . |
| 23 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 24 | And the active binder is this , I ca n't say this with a straight face , this deluxe vinyl cover , erm , purchased at enormous expense on your behalf |
| 25 | Fill this with a small amount of cat litter , having lined it first with newspaper . |
| 26 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 27 | You can demonstrate this with a short program incorporating the previous example . |
| 28 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 29 | Contrast this with a Marxist view of property rights . |
| 30 | All this with a notional enemy gunning for us . |