Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 2 | Across the road at Tullivers , Phyllida Prior and Jeremy soon became friendly with the older residents of Thrush Green . |
| 3 | As he drew level with the opposite alley mouth some more fell . |
| 4 | Patrick asked as they drew level with the old man . |
| 5 | Lost , that is , until the road drew level with the Condoriri summits . |
| 6 | As he drew level with the double gates , they swung open . |
| 7 | Nearly half a year later , in the summer heat , he could still recall the feeling of the cold air on his skin , the way his ears became numb with the freezing cold , the way he kept bursting out laughing , holding up his arms to the cloudy dark orange sky . |
| 8 | Tony says he was into raves until 1990 , when he got bored with the same hectic beats and ‘ could see it was n't going to get any bigger because the government was n't backing it . |
| 9 | They slept on Amy 's bed , drank indiscriminately from any saucer of milk or tea put down for them , were remarkably docile under Timmy 's boisterous caresses and , happily , seemed content with the cheapest kind of tinned cat food . |
| 10 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 11 | With their infamous riding qualities , the units compared ill with the air-conditioned delights of Mark 3 and HST stock being introduced on other regions . |
| 12 | After the Suez crisis Britain had rebuilt its foreign policy around the US alliance but in 1960 the Americans seemed concerned with the rising power of the Six rather than Britain . |
| 13 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 14 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding crowds , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |
| 15 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding rioters , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |
| 16 | Instead , he developed a concept of the rule of law , drawing on aspects of both the ancient and modern conceptions , which seemed incompatible with the extensive use of these governmental powers . |
| 17 | In struggling upright , my face came level with the offside front wheel . |
| 18 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the word Champagne became synonymous with the sparkling wine of the region . |
| 19 | The name of John Gould soon became synonymous with the fantastic bower-bird , and gave a new ornithological slant to one of the popular songs of the day : ‘ Will you join in the evening and charm us as you ever have done at the piano ’ , asked Gould of Mrs Owen shortly after his return , ‘ … |
| 20 | The Section , whose attention was anyway moving towards international measures co-ordinated with the Americans to promote trade , rested content with the general endorsement of the demand management approach . |
| 21 | It can be determined by comparing closure stress measured down-hole with the log-derived computed value |
| 22 | But the main institutions which the British had adapted in keeping their nation together — the Crown , Parliament , the forces of law and order , civil and commercial institutions — had all in different ways turned sour with the progressive disillusion of the years after 1945 . |
| 23 | It all became feasible with the thermionic valve , introduced during WW1 , which rapidly and irrevocably supplanted all other methods of audio amplification , including the electromechanical types ( one of which used compressed air controlled by an electromagnetic air valve ) . |
| 24 | But as closing time approached , staff became unhappy with the two defendants ' use of foul language . |
| 25 | Well I 've never got particularly involved with this school , I got involved with the other schools |
| 26 | And we got involved with the local , National Healthy Facility I think they 're called . |
| 27 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 28 | The ones who made the best records with the least effort , took the most drugs , gatecrashed the best parties and got involved with the strangest people . |
| 29 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 30 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |