Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 7 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 8 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 9 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 10 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 11 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll like Bertie , ’ Evelyn had promised her with characteristic misjudgement , ‘ he 's very with it ’ . |
| 13 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 14 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 15 | Thus in D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 the court was willing to permit the NSPCC to withhold the name of their informant but in British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 417 the defendants were ordered to disclose the name of the plaintiff 's employee who had supplied them with confidential information belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 16 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 17 | In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion . |
| 18 | Her mother came from a high-born Portuguese family , so Sara had learnt that language from the cradle ; and the devoted services of the family chaplain had provided her with considerable ability in French and Latin as well . |
| 19 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 20 | In Vienna , where the Duke had travelled as Britain 's ambassador to the Congress , society had greeted him with outrageous flattery , calling him ‘ le vainqueur du vainqueur du monde ’ , but Lucille guessed that Bonaparte might have other ideas of the Duke 's military stature . |
| 21 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 22 | Perhaps Nour had burdened her with noisy , tearing girls who had shattered the afternoon calm with screams of merriment and wild gestures , or frenzied weeping . |
| 23 | Members of a group attempting to reach the embassy the night before said policemen had hit them with rubber truncheons and turned them back . |
| 24 | Nature had endowed him with exceptional vitality and both Cagney himself and Warner Bros quickly appreciated how that vitality positively crackled before the camera . |
| 25 | Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come . |
| 26 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 27 | The young woman in question , a casual acquaintance of my family in Vienna , had inflamed me with cunning caresses . |
| 28 | The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature . |
| 29 | Steve Cauthen had partnered Pebbles in her first three races of the season but Pat Eddery had ridden her with sublime confidence in the Champion Stakes when Cauthen was claimed for Slip Anchor , and it was Eddery who had the mount at Aqueduct . |
| 30 | Dara had handled her with humiliating ease , and no doubt could continue to do so if their paths were ever to cross again . |