Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] with [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 His eyes lit up and I recognised with dismay the return of the interested , caring vicar .
2 I noted with envy the gold-embossed timber mansions of the merchants , the stalls in front of them piled high with goods of every kind : rich cloth of gold , rolls of murrey , silks and satins , leather bottles , Spanish riding boots , gold cord and testers , blankets of pure wool , and tapestries heavy with silver needlework and gold filigree .
3 I raised with counsel the question whether , on an appeal such as this , it was appropriate or permissible for me to have regard to those additional findings and reasons .
4 Clearly , I heard with disappointment the announcement made by VSEL yesterday .
5 I watched with interest the UTV Counterpoint programme , 31 October 1991 , featuring Denis Faul and Mr David Trimble MP , regarding allegations of mistreatment at Castlereagh RUC centre .
6 It jumped easily over the rocks and I saw with horror the monster that I had created .
7 Against that background , and with those friends , I viewed with satisfaction the election results that gave Harold Wilson his majority of five , or fourteen if you included the Liberals , and upon which he resolutely set out to govern .
8 With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy .
9 She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief .
10 She recalled with surprise the energy which had yesterday enabled her to race about the house .
11 She sniffed with pleasure the fresh , clinical smell of the Scots pines and the newly creosoted palings .
12 She observed with satisfaction the firmness of her breasts the flatness of her stomach and the trim roundness of her hips .
13 MRS THATCHER went to the American heartlands yesterday and made clear when questioned by university students that she viewed with alarm the idea of Britain under a coalition government .
14 We started with provisioning the boat at the quay ( ’ Put the bloody whisky out of sight or we 'll never get shown in Saudi Arabia ’ ) and leaving the quay .
15 We saw with horror the blood running out on to the ground from his head .
16 We saw with horror the blood running out on to the ground from his head .
17 Besides the meetings at Mercereau 's and the Closerie , the painters began meeting regularly at Le Fauconnier 's studio in the rue Visconti as well , where during the closing months of the year they watched with interest the development through successive stages of his Abondance , a painting that all appear to have regarded as an important , revolutionary work .
18 They wore with pride the badge of the timber corps ; crossed axes .
19 They accepted with alacrity the prospect of a glimpse of the world inside , and all three of them went along dark portrait-hung corridors and up panelled staircases to the room of one Flora Piercy , a second-year History student of considerable sophistication , who offered them a glass of wine .
20 After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ?
21 He bore with dignity the malicious insults of the notorious Judge Jeffries .
22 In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography .
23 He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night .
24 He noticed with irritation the clutter of bicycles and even motorbikes propped near the St Manicus entrance to the Cathedral .
25 The Salvation Army said it acknowledged with gratitude the faithful and caring service of the staff over the years .
26 To find out about the world of his bride , the Almanach de Gotha can be laid aside in favour of King George VI 's gamebook , that book in which he recorded with pride the bag of the day and the names of his friends and companions in sport — The Duke of Gloucester , and the Fermoys , Althorps , Felloweses and Bowes Lyons .
27 Some of Lakatos 's writings indicate that he wished to defend a position something like the one I have labelled rationalism , and that he viewed with horror the position I have labelled relativism , a version of which he attributed to Kuhn .
28 Mr Berry already had ambitions to expand Blue Arrow 's personnel services on a global basis and in 1987 he discussed with County the possibility of his company 's launching a takeover of Manpower , a US-listed agency .
29 Now , he accepted with distress the possibility that he might finally fail to do so .
30 That was the approach of Lord Oliver of Aylmerton in In re K.D. ( A Minor ) ( Ward : Termination of Access ) [ 1988 ] A.C. 806 where , in relation to an argument based on articles 6 and 8 of the same Convention and a previous decision of the European Court of Human Rights , R. v. United Kingdom ( Case 6/1986/104/152 ) , The Times , 9 July 1987 , he cited with approval the argument of counsel in the following passage , at p. 823 :
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