Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 2 | I just collapsed with laughter … . |
| 3 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 4 | Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . " |
| 5 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 6 | She was attracted by the privation of the life , which she always linked with virtue , and she liked its sexual freedom . |
| 7 | She had never seen a dragon before , and now she nearly exploded with joy . |
| 8 | She nearly gasped with dismay at the shock that shivered down into her tummy . |
| 9 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 10 | She now cooked with garlic , took an interest in wine and spoke of fricassees rather than fry-ups . |
| 11 | She almost fainted with shock , but had already learned that the edicts of the couturier ( one of the last true autocrats of the Western world ) were not to be questioned . |
| 12 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 13 | Then she almost collapsed with relief when she heard Julius 's voice . |
| 14 | She almost wept with relief as his strong fingers closed round her hand and guided her to the safety of a broad platform of stone , where at last it was possible to stand upright . |
| 15 | We often began with antipasto : a selection of home-cured salumi . |
| 16 | We often cried with pain . |
| 17 | They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity . |
| 18 | They also varied with respect to the loci of changes envisaged , and the relationship between the project initiatives and the past , current and proposed developments in the school 's curricular , extra-curricular and infrastructural dimensions . |
| 19 | They both looked with disgust at the men who came rolling drunk from the inns and ale-houses . |
| 20 | The population of this district had not been previously deeply dissatisfied ; but it was natural that they should wish well to people of their own class , supposed to be fighting for higher wages ; and they presently heard with truth that several employers hereabouts had begun to promise higher payments under the dread of seeing the population armed against them . ’ |
| 21 | Gideon 's wood and Red wood , two large game coverts , blocked the view to the north of the park ; they almost joined with Home wood , a coppice to the immediate north of the house . |
| 22 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 23 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 24 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 25 | The movie , made in 1988 , is a good pointer to what has happened to Allen : the targets he once pricked with flip but divine one-liners — the shrinks , the Life / Death / Weltschmerz question — are no longer a laughing matter as America 's greatest contemporary wit approaches the mid-September of his days . |
| 26 | It also commented with concern on the lack of progress in negotiating the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs ( GATT ) and the dangers of a rise in protectionism . |
| 27 | The Pactus pro tenore pacis concerned itself largely with issues relating to theft ; the crime itself and the tracking of the criminal by local officials called centenarii , even across the boundaries between the Merovingian kingdoms ; it also dealt with trial by ordeal , punishment , and the right of sanctuary . |
| 28 | Not only was he heir to the Spencer estates , he also served with distinction as a captain in the Royal Scots Greys during World War Two and , as Equerry to the Queen , he had accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on their historic tour of Australia shortly before his marriage . |
| 29 | He also continued with spectrum analysis , mapping spectra and struggling to work out which lines belonged to which elements among the confusing Rare Earth Metals like Lanthanum . |
| 30 | He also experimented with photography , and did significant early work with X-rays from 1896 , and with radio waves from 1897 . |