Example sentences of "with [pron] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the morning our vet returned and we discussed the situation , with me close to tears .
2 It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere .
3 Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind .
4 He glares at Eva with something close to hatred .
5 The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment .
6 You ride high and comfortably , with everything conveniently to hand .
7 Disturbed , Isa proposed Wilson and Pilade should come with her up to Bellosguardo for the afternoon and , since no protest was made , she hustled the two of them into her waiting carriage and whisked them off at once , leaving Maria with instructions to be there upon their return .
8 But Lynnette D'Armande turned her chair round and sat with her back to Broadway .
9 And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up .
10 Years ago he persuaded me to go with him up to Tigouga , his home village , and the near-mystical Tichka Plateau above .
11 She married fellow student Bob Norrie when her articles were over and moved with him down to Reading to take her first job as a solicitor with Dennis Berry & Co .
12 And disappear with it back to university .
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