Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 3 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 4 | ‘ I would look after her with loving care , Mr Wormwood , and I would pay for everything . |
| 5 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 6 | You 'll never make it , ’ roared Rocky and took off after him with surprising speed for one of his size and bulk . |
| 7 | Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag . |
| 8 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 9 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 10 | Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed . |
| 11 | They would take the mickey out of me with sickening enthusiasm . |
| 12 | ‘ For a typical utterance , the word recogniser hypothesizes 20 incorrect words in the same time interval as each correct word , 4 of them with higher confidence ratings . |
| 13 | It has landed all of them with serious stabilisation problems . |
| 14 | One of them with interior décor of a nineteenth-century sailing clipper . |
| 15 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 16 | He wrote on various subjects , all of them with one aim in view , namely to keep his name before the public and to make sure that his ideas were not allowed to disappear from circulation . |
| 17 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 18 | As Richard Whalley wrote to his sister in 1624 , many quite wealthy local gentlemen : ‘ had opposed their parents … consumed their whole estates , even to one foot of ground , five of them with much ado to get winding sheets ; some died under hedges ’ . |
| 19 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 20 | One large group of negatives had apparently been taken at a fancy dress party organised by the Duke of Devonshire — over 100 guests had been photographed , most of them with different background settings . |
| 21 | It takes us into their homes , gives space for their voices ; and Townsend powerfully attacked the widespread myth that the family was no longer providing most of them with social support or practical help . |
| 22 | It is indeed a case of ‘ the day of small things ’ and it is the doing of them with good-humoured patience and the appreciation of others doing them that makes the sum of these tiny parts such a very considerable one at the end of the day . |
| 23 | The issues discussed in this chapter relate mainly to the second and third options and in particular to proposals to replace a large ‘ proportion of them with some type of negative income tax system broadly defined . |
| 24 | As in the front , the windows here were fully curtained , all of them looking decidedly posh and new ; and all of them with some approximation to those French pleats whose acquaintance Lewis had so recently made — and , if truth were told , Morse too . |
| 25 | Yet , once the bug has bitten , it is amazing how so many home-brewed designs appear , and most of them with excellent stitching in all its variations . |
| 26 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 27 | In Ipswich 12 people were still at home in the action sample , three of them with considerable support from the project . |
| 28 | It would be simply untrue to charge either of them with strict censorship of controversy and opposition : they both regularly report controversy , including the most outspoken criticism of the Federal Government and its policies . |
| 29 | Love turns your life upside-down this week , causing confusion and uncertainty for those of you with long-term security . |
| 30 | Soldiers , battle-wagons , helicopters and rockets rush towards you with alarming speed , only to be shot down by John in true Op Wolf/Thunderbolt fashion . |