Example sentences of "they [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 2 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 3 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 4 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 5 | His eyes , dark and set deep beneath a firm , unfurrowed brow , were sleek and watchful ; one 's first impression that they twinkled with a friendly mirth soon vanished . |
| 6 | ‘ The same thing happened to Arsenal last season after Benfica knocked them out , of the European Cup , but they came with a late run and it 's up to us to do the same . |
| 7 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 8 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 9 | They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg . |
| 10 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 11 | Lorton won nearly two pounds from the fruit machine so they celebrated with a third pint . |
| 12 | A boathook reached out and latched on to the ship 's side , and a small , dark-haired crewgirl pulled them in until they touched with a gentle bump . |
| 13 | They began with a creamy vegetable soup . |
| 14 | They returned with a huge roll of green baize which was then gently placed on top of the groaning air conditioner . |
| 15 | ‘ Round yon virgin mother and child , holy infant so tender and mild , sleep in heavenly peace , slee-eep in heavenly peace , ’ they finished with a high-speed wail . |
| 16 | Of course , they dealt with a given area , and quite successfully . |
| 17 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 18 | People did n't have much to give but what they gave they gave with a good heart you know . |
| 19 | They left with a strong commitment to share their experiences at home and to campaign even more vigorously for concrete action by the North American governments and churches . |
| 20 | They ended with a 5–3 losing record , going down to New Zealand in the two tests ( finishing with a 59–6 humiliation in the second ) and ending with a lop-sided scoring record of 287 points ( 50 tries ) against and only 153 ( 21 tries ) for . |