Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 2 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 3 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 4 | ‘ With your good-looking Drew ? ’ asked someone with a friendly laugh . |
| 5 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 6 | Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce . |
| 7 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 8 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 9 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 10 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 11 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 14 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 15 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 16 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 17 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 18 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 19 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 20 | The network of family , village and regional ties , the zemlyachestva , which ‘ peasant-proletarians ’ imported into the city provided them with a social nexus which at least limited the disorientation and anomie imputed to them . |
| 21 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 22 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 23 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 24 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 25 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 26 | But his lordship 's grandfather was a cautious man , and provided himself with a secret way out at need . |
| 27 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 28 | Beaten 6–3 , 6–3 in their previous encounter , 6ft 5ins tall Ainley , a former Hampshire County choice , avenged himself with a superb display to take the title at the fourth attempt with a 6–2 , 6–1 win . |
| 29 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 30 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |