Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
2 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
3 | One girl 's facial impetigo had to be painted with ointment that stung the scabs and branded her with unsightly violet-coloured splotches for several weeks . |
4 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
5 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
6 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
7 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
8 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
9 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
10 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
11 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
12 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
13 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
14 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |
15 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
16 | Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems . |
17 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
18 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
19 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
20 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
21 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
22 | She rented the Duchess of Norfolk 's mansion in St James 's Square and filled it with red and white roses for a party . |
23 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
24 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
25 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
26 | And studied her with deathless agape . |
27 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
28 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |
29 | We 've put together some great hairstyle ideas and teamed them with beautiful outfits and accessories . |
30 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |