Example sentences of "with a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a dark two-piece suit and a pert little hat with a feather that set it off well and I immediately was drawn to her . |
| 2 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 3 | Then , with a look that froze her , he turned away . |
| 4 | He answered her with a look that told her nothing . |
| 5 | He fixed her with a look that demanded she raised her eyes to his . |
| 6 | He instructed me to look after you , ’ she finished with a look that said it was no use arguing . |
| 7 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 8 | A form of this non-commercial trading occurred on London Fox in 1991 , when the exchange itself opened an account with a trader and directed him to enter into trades on one of its own markets . |
| 9 | The last word contorted to a scream as Merlyn let her go with a thrust that sent her rocking unbalanced in Rain 's direction . |
| 10 | Her pulses leapt with a ferocity that alarmed her . |
| 11 | At times she hated Freddie Nash with a ferocity that astonished her ; yet at others she longed to see him , to have his support , to feel that one day , perhaps after she had given birth to his baby , they would meet again and that she would experience , however transitory and unreliable — at least on his part — their mutual passion . |
| 12 | When she sings something like ‘ Nothing Left At All ’ you can almost feel the sky closing in tight above you , getting so close that you could reach up with a broomstick and touch it . |
| 13 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 14 | ‘ Make a call , ’ said Henry with a crispness that surprised him . |
| 15 | Had a slight argument with a Sunderland but left it O.K. ’ |
| 16 | Mark the pipe with a pencil and withdraw it about 10mm |
| 17 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 18 | She barely has time to recover before Nina Myskow breezes in with a smile that makes her look like a 10-year-old ( a ten-year-old Stilton , that is ) , hurls her customary , ‘ Hello , you old bag , ’ and her reflection kisses the air beside my cheek . |
| 19 | Wilkins began struggling with a constable and pushed him into a bush . |
| 20 | Butterflies seek out the one plant whose leaves provide the only food their caterpillars will eat ; beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them ; flies feverishly deposit their eggs within carrion ; and solitary wasps catch spiders , paralyse them with a sting and stack them around their eggs so that the young larvae will have fresh meat awaiting them . |
| 21 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 22 | Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ? |
| 23 | Hood : a good fitting cowl-shaped hood with a drawcord that pulls it in well , giving a snug fit around the head . |
| 24 | to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God ! |
| 25 | It is Marquand 's enthusiasm for every initiative with a Euro-prefix that strikes me as old-fashioned . |
| 26 | We suggest that you check your oven temperature with a thermometer or set it 10° lower — make sure you check the manufacturer 's instructions first as some are already adjusted . |
| 27 | Hari asked softly and Edward looked down at her with a shrewdness that disconcerted her . |
| 28 | Within seconds Travis was behind her , swinging her round with a grip that made her wince . |
| 29 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 30 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |