Example sentences of "[vb past] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put all the cake ingredients except the chocolate liqueur in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or with a food mixer until light and fluffy . |
| 2 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 3 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me about your acting career , ’ he invited with an abrupt change of topic as if to say the matter of the earrings was forgotten , though she knew it was n't . |
| 5 | Nancy entered with a brave face but with fear in her heart . |
| 6 | 1982 was the definitive Reading ROCK festival : Budgie , Iron Maiden and Michael Schenker headlined with a supporting cast of such acned arseholes as Terraplane and Praying Mantis , and old stagers Blackfoot and Tygers Of Pan Tang . |
| 7 | Andy had n't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players . |
| 8 | The string of the bow , snapping at the notch , coiled with a fierce whine about Isambard 's arm , like a spring released . |
| 9 | He moved with a lithe grace ; only the lines on his face gave him away , the little scrawny pouch under his chin . |
| 10 | She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next , thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard , and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others . |
| 11 | It moved with a heavy surge and the dog released it , her hackles rising . |
| 12 | Taking a deep breath , she moved with a sudden thrust , propelling herself away from his arms off the bed and on to the floor . |
| 13 | Rachel moved with a hoarse cry , groping blindly for support , trying to reach the sofas , shaking like a leaf . |
| 14 | It was mainly the two women 's voices , cascading with emotions which erupted with a startling suddenness and burst explosively into the surface of life . |
| 15 | Something erupted with a soft boom , like a distant starting-gun , and the aircraft crumpled . |
| 16 | Thank you , Doctor ’ , ’ Deana mimicked with an exaggerated simper , as soon as Tom Russell was safely out of earshot . |
| 17 | ‘ He said you and he walked out once , ’ Annie mentioned with a shy grin . |
| 18 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 19 | Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal . |
| 20 | As for — ’ He stopped with a muttered oath as he saw Richard approaching . |
| 21 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 22 | He trained with a small firm in Cardiff . |
| 23 | He trained with a small firm in Mansfield . |
| 24 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 25 | Thus , as down in the laboratory annexe Ari struggled and swam with a new sensation , above her head , Tammuz Malamute plundered the willing body of Zambia Crevecoeur , causing the building to reverberate with sexual emissions of several different types . |
| 26 | The computerized drumbeats were overlaid with real instruments — all , incidentally , played by Omar , a regular soul renaissance man also blessed with a singular singing voice . |
| 27 | After this recommended detour to Ru Stoer , the road to Lochinver is resumed as it turns south and passes between the scattered buildings of the village of Stoer , occupying a bleak area of the coastal belt and itself having no features of special interest to warrant a halt , but blessed with a lovely bay and sandy beaches nearby . |
| 28 | My brother and I behaved with an immune princeliness that was galling . |
| 29 | The northern sky was resplendent in stars of unbelievable intensity and flickered with a bizarre display of the Aurora Borealis . |
| 30 | The room hummed with an expectant murmur which heightened and then died away when Commander Brian Spittals , followed by Blanche and the head of the Press Bureau , strode out on to the platform . |