Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] with some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |
| 2 | Richard shrugged with some diffidence . |
| 3 | Therese said with some ferocity , ‘ They think of themselves . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to have to travel up to London every day of the week , ’ Meredith said with some regret . |
| 5 | Wordsworth sees with some prescience that political beliefs will be the calls to battle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — you might say ! |
| 6 | Abrams himself , North remarked with some heat , did not need to ask ; he knew ; but at a certain point , knowledge became uncomfortable . |
| 7 | The railways were , as Charles Dickens noted with some distaste , ubiquitous : |
| 8 | Jessamy asked with some interest , moving closer . |
| 9 | Darius checked with some friends and learned that the heavies were seen again Sunday evening . |
| 10 | ‘ I am practical , ’ Jessamy insisted with some annoyance . |
| 11 | Danzigers felt with some justification that they had been left to the mercy of the Polish military and were now chained to what Molotov called the monstrous bastard of Versailles — the backward Polish state and economy . |
| 12 | Mrs Levine argues with some conviction and at great length that the break-up of Asquith 's romance with Venetia was centrally shattering to the prime minister , was directly responsible for his flaccid performance in the contemporaneous creation of the 1915 Coalition , and indirectly led to the decline of his grip and power and to the end of the Liberal party as a governing force . |
| 13 | Jack relaxing with some friends at Brooklands ( right centre , sitting between two young ladies ! ) , circa 1913 . |
| 14 | BR speaks with some justification of a ‘ quiet revolution ’ in the 1980s . |
| 15 | Royal Robbins spoke with some stature , but little cohesion , and Jerry and Chris smiled a lot , but said little . |
| 16 | ‘ Fully reciprocated , ’ Fosdyke said with some gloom . |
| 17 | Flavia said with some spirit , ‘ That 's how I see divorce . |
| 18 | Robert knew , as he waited while Lalage laughed with some stranger , that he was standing near a death-bed . |
| 19 | Peggy saw with some dismay that she wore the distant smile of a woman reviewing her late husband 's insurance position . |
| 20 | Nutty spoke with some asperity , not encouraged by the marked lack of enthusiasm her team was displaying . |
| 21 | Certainly a visitor to rural schools in Kenya , Swaziland , Sierra Leone or parts of Nigeria notes with some amazement a community , homogeneous linguistically and culturally , which supports , often proudly , a school where the medium is English . |
| 22 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 23 | Alexandra said with some desperation . |
| 24 | As against this view , however , Jensen and Murphy suggest with some plausibility that ‘ there are strong political and organizational forces that tend to define success in dimensions other than shareholder wealth and exert pressures for actions that reduce firm value . |
| 25 | Later , Fonsagrive notes with some vexation : |
| 26 | The Chief Constable of Lancashire wrote with some irritation to the County Inspector at Galway , explaining this . |