Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 2 | You may have thought you already knew all this , but it is hard to think of anyone who has put the case as plainly , or elucidated it with such concrete examples . |
| 3 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
| 4 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 5 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 6 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 7 | Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics . |
| 8 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 9 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 10 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 11 | One girl 's facial impetigo had to be painted with ointment that stung the scabs and branded her with unsightly violet-coloured splotches for several weeks . |
| 12 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 13 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 14 | He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses . |
| 15 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 16 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 17 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 18 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 19 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 20 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 21 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 22 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 23 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
| 24 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 25 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 26 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
| 27 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 28 | Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems . |
| 29 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
| 30 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |