Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 2 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 3 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 'd better provide you with toasted teacakes as well , ’ said Amiss sympathetically . |
| 5 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 6 | In a few moments she had finished it all while Tom All Alone watched her with obvious delight . |
| 7 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 8 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 10 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 11 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 12 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |
| 13 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 14 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 15 | In the event , inhabitants of Štanjel , although they were certainly not unkind to him , did not exactly welcome him with open arms . |
| 16 | He did n't react , just watched her with deep concern . |
| 17 | I have since used it with great success at children 's parties . |
| 18 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 19 | Martinus , a just man , protested to Paulus , who promptly threatened him with instant imprisonment for his interference . |
| 20 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 21 | Life grew greyer by the day , but Gina could always surprise him with new horrors . |
| 22 | Remember opportunity costs : in coughing up the money for one project , investors are still comparing it with other possible projects . |
| 23 | She does really young , fun , party clothes — a lot are in black but she always trims them with bright colours . |
| 24 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 25 | The Bees did n't know who to mark as United switched their play and their players to totally confuse them with classy running that carried the hallmarks of good coaching . |
| 26 | We can still charge him with reckless behaviour . |
| 27 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 28 | He paused , still watching her with impersonal interest . |
| 29 | Always protect them with high factor sunscreen creams , and wear a t-shirt and hat . |
| 30 | I wanted to on the report you know so always had it with easy reference but |