Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 3 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 4 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 5 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 6 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 7 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 8 | She 'd fled , but not before he 'd accused her with brutish , angry words of a number of character and personality deficiencies , the greatest of which appeared to be her total inability to appreciate the finer qualities of Marcus Pritchard . |
| 9 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 10 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 11 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 12 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 13 | Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was . |
| 14 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 15 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 16 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 17 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 18 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 19 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 20 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 21 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 22 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 23 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 24 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 25 | I did see one with bright belligerent eye |
| 26 | He did not always side with the city , though he did concern himself with urban and industrial problems . |
| 27 | So although positivist criminology did concern itself with social and economic conditions , in a way that classical criminology did not , it mostly ended up just as timid-looking as far as drawing ‘ corrective ’ conclusions was concerned . |
| 28 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 29 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 30 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |