Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was a part of the Horton and Banstead strategy and wholly consistent with its philosophy of local care ’ . |
| 2 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 3 | It was lunchtime and , not being in the lunching class , they went out into the street , suddenly tired and rather grey with it all . |
| 4 | For some reason , even though he was often sharp and rather short with her , however kind he was to his poor patients , she had begun to like being with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Snake ’ is an appropriately twisty piece of steel-wire guitar dance music and dead spooky with it and suggests a happier early ACR . |
| 6 | Always the strong one , never ailing like her sisters , and so happy with her three little children . |
| 7 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 8 | I weep to hear of this latest affliction and so unexpected with him in the prime of his life and never an illness and being a big strong man . |
| 9 | They would be better fed , better clothed — even better educated — while their parents were alive , and better pleased with their legacies once those parents were dead . |
| 10 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |
| 11 | She 's very genuine , very funky and extremely free with herself — a little crazy , half out of her mind , but very amusing . |
| 12 | At either end of the state saloon , and entirely unconnected with it , are small compartments , for each a guard , who has the control of a powerful argand lamp which , on passing through the tunnels along the line , reflects a strong light through a ground glass of globular form inserted in the panelling . |
| 13 | They are , in fact , suspicious of anything simple and easily bored with it . |
| 14 | Admittedly this repertory is not in exactly the same category as the hit song material ; nevertheless it is stylistically and functionally continuous with it . |
| 15 | He was short and deeply unpopular with everyone because he had cheated them out of their money when he collected their taxes for the Roman army . |
| 16 | He became more and more obsessed with his own kingship and the importance of his direct succession from Cyrus . |
| 17 | Harold was becoming more and more irritable with his wife 's bouncing in and out of bed and he declared that if the mice saw the kitten they might well decide to make a meal of it . |
| 18 | In the finale too King is string and forthright , but Johnson is warmer and more personal with her cheekily witty treatment of the first solo . |
| 19 | We are simply happier and more confident with our present choice of rod . |
| 20 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |
| 21 | Recently his complaints had been more and more concerned with his wife : he had even asked the doctor to ‘ tell Susie ’ to give up her job and stay at home . |
| 22 | In the months following the end of the civil war , parliament 's New Model Army , which contained large numbers of soldiers who had rejected the Presbyterian establishment in favour of greater religious toleration , grew steadily more and more disenchanted with its masters . |
| 23 | Overall , men seem to be quite confident in their sexual ability and reasonably content with their sex lives . |
| 24 | It is rare nowadays to find a research council able to live within its means and reasonably happy with its situation , but that is the impression that the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ) put over when it launched its annual report . |
| 25 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 26 | Sunburn agony as wife ( also drunk and gigglingly unsympathetic with it ) pulls me out . |
| 27 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 28 | Only someone as lofty and as besotted with himself as Ferrari could conclude the negotiations by saying , OK , Jew , you win . |
| 29 | Reports nationwide reflect a similar story : smaller firms , and particularly those with one to three partners , are giving up training chartered accountants and , if they are continuing to train at all , employing people who are training for other cheaper and more flexible accountancy qualifications . |
| 30 | What is more , and equally incompatible with our conception of parliamentary democracy , the judicial interpretation of the terms of such a document as the Convention is not susceptible to statutory control or modification . |