Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 2 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 3 | Like this and with a flap |
| 4 | He was left in feeble health , unemployed and with a wife , three-year-old daughter and a newly-born one . |
| 5 | For those unemployed and with a family , the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering . |
| 6 | For the briefest and most uncomfortable moment , he was made to think of the father he 'd left behind in the North of England , a man just widowed and with a stepson whom he disliked intensely . |
| 7 | They played out with sincerity the traumas of a couple going through rigorous assessment for adoptive parenthood , and of a single father , widowed and with a prison conviction , coming to terms with the loss of his children . |
| 8 | When it is complete , the slender glass and steel tube , standing well over a quarter of a mile high and with a base diameter of only 43 metres , will soar above and keep watch over the garden of fin de siècle delights at La Défense . |
| 9 | I felt really good a few pounds lighter and with a tan , and I wanted to stay like that and surprise everyone when I got back , especially my boyfriend , who might have been wishing I was thinner . |
| 10 | The ceiling was so low that with a jump Matilda could nearly touch it with her finger-tips . |
| 11 | But they 're still alive and spitting , and here then is the third album from a band who have found themselves paddle-less up more creeks than they 'd care to count and have emerged from their sojourn in the wilderness battered but staunchly defiant and with a record more cohesive and infinitely more glorious than anyone could have hoped . |
| 12 | If their babies are to thrive , they must have a cave that is warm , humid and with a temperature that varies hardly at all between day and night . |
| 13 | As such , it is not at odds with the ‘ litmus-test ’ of self-advocacy , seeming to support a view of people as potentially autonomous and with a right to self-determination within a less restrictive social milieu . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't look bored and with a dress like that you are certainly not shy … ’ |
| 15 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 16 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 17 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 18 | However , a thinned shot flies very low and with a lot of run so the chances are it will run straight through the green . |
| 19 | Legally not strictly a cow , but just as strange and with a Glasgow connection is this next item . |
| 20 | Being deprived of the goals , our desire eats us up and leaves us dissatisfied and with a sense of longing . |
| 21 | Old Bolingbroke , now no more than a picturesque small village but once much larger and with a castle , was the birthplace of Henry IV |
| 22 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 23 | He was handsome , perhaps twenty-three or four , slim , fine-featured and with a shock of pale brown hair . |
| 24 | Those who come as partners , patient and ready to learn and therefore better able to adapt their contribution before giving it , stand a better chance of going back happier and with a feeling it was worth it . |
| 25 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
| 26 | The village of Claythorpe , once quite large and with a railway passing through , has disappeared from the face of some modern-day maps and the railway has long since been dismantled . |
| 27 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 28 | Hawaii was n't like that at all ; we were just pure metal wildness played really fast and with a lot of chops . |
| 29 | He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded . |
| 30 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |