Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] with [det] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible .
2 He says do n't you dare come near me with that silly spray .
3 She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed .
4 He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest .
5 It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart .
6 However a set of terms arrives in a particular document , it is likely that at some stage it was prepared by someone with some degree of legal knowledge .
7 There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader .
8 Most specialist agencies find that a good deal of the counselling and practical advice they give could as easily be provided by someone with less specialist knowledge .
9 Many of his junior colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh subsequently filled senior academic and hospital posts in this country and overseas and he is remembered by them with much gratitude and affection .
10 His eyes were fixed on her with such intensity that she felt as if that dark brown gaze were burning her skin .
11 That was why she had reacted to him with such ferocity , why she had such difficulty tearing her mind away from him , why she shivered inside each time she pictured his face .
12 The blue eyes pierced through her with that cold , callous look that once was capable of breaking her heart .
13 An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry .
14 I am arranging for the packaging and masters for the above title to be delivered to you with this letter .
15 No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm .
16 Austen had certainly emerged as leader , for nobody could have stood against him with any prospect of success , and it was appropriate that his succession should be marked by Pretyman , who was a respected backbencher of long service and represented the inarticulate centre of the party .
17 A copy was sent to you with this guide .
18 It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence .
19 Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time .
20 This has to be suggested to her with some care , without giving her the impression that you think her sudden collapse into illness is in any way imminent or inevitable ; and it should not be suggested at all if it is felt that it might upset or frighten her .
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