Example sentences of "to [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even experienced mountain walkers take to them with varying degrees of enthusiasm — so you should consider if that sort of thing will be to the taste of everyone in your group . |
| 2 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 3 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 4 | If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding . |
| 5 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 6 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 7 | We discussed also the so-called ‘ spiritual , manifestations , about which Lady Byron wrote to me with great feeling . |
| 8 | Some of the learning and insights gained come back to me with great clarity as I write . |
| 9 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 10 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 11 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 12 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 13 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 14 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 15 | People came up to me with glowing faces and said , Was n't it wonderful ? |
| 16 | You will be a great help to me with Indian women , and in Indian schools . ’ |
| 17 | International make-up artist Pia St. Luce will personally verify their recommendations and write to you with simple step-by-step instructions and advice on how to apply her cosmetic selection for perfect results . |
| 18 | Teshigawara 's vision of that extraordinary city ( much larger population than London , but in a much smaller space ! ) socks it to you with dynamic energy . |
| 19 | Yes , but if you already have a Sun Alliance Personal Accident Policy , which was also offered to you with guaranteed acceptance , you will not be able to claim benefits under both Policies . |
| 20 | India 's Shia Muslims , who were antagonistic to Mr Hussein over his war against Iran , have rallied to him with surprising haste . |
| 21 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 22 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 23 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 24 | If a Conservative MP X or Y , who has not been known to take ideological stands , approaches a minister or a whip and expresses grave doubts , this is viewed with considerable worry and it is assumed that these objections have been put forward by the MP only after the points have been put to him with equal or greater force in his constituency . |
| 25 | The scene came back to him with immediate clarity of detail . |
| 26 | But no parody was intended : when he got his bishopric , he would expect and require his subordinates to refer to him with similar flourishes . |
| 27 | Isabelle had loved another man — had given herself to him with disastrous consequences — and here was Sabine , the living proof , the cuckoo in the conventional Russell family nest . |
| 28 | If you are attending a meeting , arrive in good time , plan to have a clear view of the speaker , being reasonably close to him with hearing-aid volume low rather than being more distant with the volume at a higher level , picking up more unwanted noise . |
| 29 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 30 | Details presented themselves to him with unusual clarity : the sprinkling of grey hairs among Henry 's curls ; an ambulance siren and a helicopter fighting for dominance outside ; and the dryness at the back of his throat which announced that his addiction to tobacco was craving to be fed . |