Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 6 | Sure enough , the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The way Singer spoke the word seemed to endow it with some great mystery . |
| 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 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 14 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 15 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 16 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 17 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 18 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |
| 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 | It started when the Crown , which up till then considered swans as Royal property , agreed to share them with 2 City of London livery companies ; the Vintners and the Dyers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So the large one decided to regale them with further information . |
| 26 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 27 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |
| 28 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 29 | And learned to associate you with that smell |
| 30 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |