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 .
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