Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 2 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 3 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 4 | Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker . |
| 5 | He met them with a drawn sword , but it was Gwion and Colban and a score of others armed with staves , kitchen knives and clubs . |
| 6 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 7 | That is why they attacked me with a bomb . |
| 8 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 9 | To determine whether DP-1 is present in complexes containing Rb , we immunoprecipitated them with an anti-Rb monoclonal antibody from extracts of the human leukaemic cell line JM , which contain high levels of the DRTF1/E2F-Rb complex . |
| 10 | In a sense then , the fate of Simmel 's work is at present parallel to that of Hegel 's , in as much as later authorities have appropriated his ideas and aligned them with a theory of rupture seen as specific to capitalism . |
| 11 | A Feldwebel passed me with a drawn revolver . |
| 12 | ‘ With your good-looking Drew ? ’ asked someone with a friendly laugh . |
| 13 | He glanced across at the waiting technicians and dismissed them with a gesture . |
| 14 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 15 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 16 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 17 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 18 | Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce . |
| 19 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 20 | We caught them with a net and we used to sell them as cage-birds . ’ |
| 21 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 22 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 23 | She fixed me with a look of vengeance and demanded the home phone number of the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures . |
| 24 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 25 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 26 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 27 | When the children clattered , yelling , down the bus steps , their mothers regarded them with a mixture of disgust and pride , as if amazed anew each afternoon that they had managed to produce children of such spectacular offensiveness . |
| 28 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 29 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
| 30 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |