Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've never made them with condensed milk . |
| 6 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I know , because I have applied it with complete success to his own speeches and writings . |
| 9 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 10 | Have you noticed I 've done it with Loving Care ? |
| 11 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 12 | Stained glass features throughout their home and the Michies have incorporated it with great success . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll like Bertie , ’ Evelyn had promised her with characteristic misjudgement , ‘ he 's very with it ’ . |
| 16 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 17 | I have since used it with great success at children 's parties . |
| 18 | He had not only preserved the room , he had cleaned it with meticulous care and provided fresh flowers in the little glass spill . |
| 19 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 20 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 21 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 22 | In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion . |
| 23 | But he told his bosses in London who have now provided him with round-the-clock protection for fear he could be in the sights of an IRA killer gang . |
| 24 | ‘ The Met have now provided him with round-the-clock protection as they fear the filofax could fall into the hands of the IRA , ’ said the source . |
| 25 | He does not , however , have to pursue his own investigations if the parties have provided him with sufficient evidence : 14.8 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 30 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |