Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 2 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
| 3 | and my fingers broke with the speed |
| 4 | He shouted suddenly and my fingers pricked with fright . |
| 5 | I had fallen asleep , squatting behind a buttress of the church of St Nicholas long after curfew , my lips blue , my teeth chattering with the cold . |
| 6 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 7 | My eyes prickle with tears , and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love . |
| 8 | When I read about her death , my eyes filled with tears . |
| 9 | My eyes filled with tears , that took me as unexpectedly as one of the Corporal 's ambushes . |
| 10 | My nose started to bleed and my eyes streamed with water . |
| 11 | Happening by chance to be employed in one of the most notoriously protest-prone university schools in the Western world , I have noticed an extraordinary anomaly in student protest behaviour which I invite my readers to compare with their own experience , which I think they will find quite closely comparable to my own . |
| 12 | And Celie , I was so tired and sleepy and full of chicken and groundnut stew , my ears ringing with song , that all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me . |
| 13 | My ears burned with their crudity at times . |
| 14 | LIKE many pensioners I am seeing my savings dwindle with falling interest rates . |
| 15 | I felt my pulses beating with excitement as he came closer . |
| 16 | My feet tickle with the marching rhythm . |
| 17 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 18 | Somehow the feeling in my bones agrees with that statement . ’ |
| 19 | My armpits pricked with embarrassment . |
| 20 | That 's a problem for my grandchildren to contend with . |
| 21 | I keep some of the toys on display in working order for my grandchildren to play with . |
| 22 | I 'm a carer through choice , er , I took both my parents to live with me erm , when they no longer could cope on their own and it totally changes your life ! |
| 23 | I started shaking and my shoes squeaked with apprehension as I shuffled on the lino . |
| 24 | My expectations rose with the quality of my life . |
| 25 | My cheeks ache with the grin . |
| 26 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 27 | I am struck by small objects and my nostrils fill with the stink of rot . |
| 28 | That afternoon , my feelings soothed with company and talk , Sally and I walked back down the bright valley through cricket-loud grasses and thousands of flowers . |
| 29 | I do all that the law requires of me if my actions comply with it . |
| 30 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |