Example sentences of "and [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Soon one could ignore it , except now and then when the fire seemed to take a huge breath and glowed with a sudden fierceness which sent sparks flying crazily up the chimney . |
2 | The pulsar has a period of 102ms and slows with a characteristic age of 17,300yr . |
3 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
4 | The Royal bedroom in each car occupied roughly one-third of the car 's length , and communicated with a spacious bathroom fitted with a full-sized bath ; adjacent to the bathrooms were small sleeping compartments for the King 's valet and the Queen 's maid respectively . |
5 | I should apply a hot antiphlogistine poultice just above the fetlock and alternate with a cold hose on it twice a day . " |
6 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
7 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
8 | D'Alembord was newly engaged , and filled with a touching happiness at the prospect of his marriage . |
9 | It was small , immensely hot and filled with a dense soup of the fundamental particles : quarks ( which are heavy ) and leptons ( which are light ) . |
10 | But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration . |
11 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
12 | In fact any subject matter can be examined and taught with a significant resource-based component , although as in our examples above there is likely always to be an important place for the directed expository lesson , whether " lead " or otherwise . |
13 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
14 | His chainsword , lifted high above the dome , descended in an arc and stopped with a tortured howl as it hit the carbon-reinforced vitreous . |
15 | A first-class engineer , McCafferty claimed he was allergic to diesel fumes and treated with a knowing disdain the frequently repeated observation that , because of the engine-room 's highly efficient extractor fans , it was virtually impossible for anyone to detect the smell of diesel . |
16 | Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma . |
17 | He served us mulled wine sprinkled with cinnamon and heated with a red hot poker and then emptied the contents of a saddle bag on to the table ; it contained a few faded white rose petals and pieces of parchment . |
18 | One view of play ( this spontaneous activity found in the immature animal and in most humans of any age ) is that it prepares the organism to meet and to cope with a wide range of situations . |
19 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
20 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
21 | She saw the disappointment on his face , and realised with a sinking heart that the boy would not be punished . |
22 | Huy looked at the over-long face , the ridiculous beard , and realised with a sudden shock that the man was scared . |
23 | The restaurant changed , as did the maƮtre d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
24 | The slides were then washed in phosphate buffered saline and incubated with a 1:300 dilution of biotinylated anti-mouse antibody ( Dakopatts , Denmark ) . |
25 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
26 | After she left school she came to London from her home in Yorkshire in order to attend a secretarial college , but abandoned that and enrolled with a secretarial agency . |
27 | Aromatherapy : massage with essential oils made from natural sources and blended with a neutral base , such as sweet almond oils . |
28 | The outer edges were rounded and smoothed with a small edging trowel , which gives a very attractive finish . |
29 | Theodossin also implies a third element here , that the scheme began and developed with a wide range of institutional consent precisely because of features of its initial design ( he points , for example , to the choice of a term-long unit and the control retained by staff over field changes , if not module changes , by students ) . |
30 | And here was an inspection panel of close-set steel mesh embedded in the wall , sealed with waxen evil-eye hexes and painted with a faded inscription in the hieratic tongue : Hoc sacrificium consecrat nos muros . |