Example sentences of "[vb past] with a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although addition errors occurred with a generally low frequency , they were considerably more frequent for closed than for open class items . |
| 2 | East Lindsey is an area of Lincolnshire blessed with a very great variety of attractions of interests . |
| 3 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Go home with Lucy and get some rest , and do n't worry your pretty head about the business , ’ her father added with a slightly guilty air , as if suddenly recalling her convalescent status . |
| 5 | Some of us prefer to keep our feet on solid ground , ’ she added with a deliberately contrived laugh . |
| 6 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 7 | Er and we came with a very strong view I thought certainly to conclusion and I did that er , that those things need strengthening and must be a in taking part of any further distraction er at Heathrow . |
| 8 | Ally McCoist missed an early sitter and then equalised with a beautifully flighted chip after Mark Hateley had set things up . |
| 9 | Dorcas liked to see eagerness in a young nome , but Nisodemus vibrated with a peculiarly hungry kind of eagerness that was unpleasant to see . |
| 10 | Maxim woke with a slightly tender head — those blasted lieutenants and their silly jokes — and the sombre feeling that he must be getting truly old if he could no longer sleep through a normal wakey-wakey in barracks . |
| 11 | ‘ Venice is very good at keeping its secrets , ’ he murmured with a maddeningly superior smile . |
| 12 | He turned with a vaguely surprised smile , and she hugged him . |
| 13 | Lt.-Col. Hoffman von Waldau , the Chief-of-Staff of X Corps , which now formed the spearhead on the Right Bank , opened with a thoroughly gloomy report . |
| 14 | It came in two colours , medium brown or medium grey ; it shone with a slightly oily sheen . |
| 15 | He nodded with a peculiarly male satisfaction at her capitulation , and she felt her stomach muscles clench in irritation . |
| 16 | This met with a very negative response . |
| 17 | The members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ( founded 1838 ) were invited to submit diseased animals to the College , but this met with an almost complete lack of response . |
| 18 | Mala agreed with a surprisingly little hesitation to stay behind and protect the ship , while I went into the spaceport city . |
| 19 | ‘ Then tell me how long it is since you left school , ’ he asked with a fascinatingly wry little smile . |
| 20 | ‘ Is Gwen Bear coming ? ’ he asked with a perfectly straight face . |
| 21 | ‘ Problem , ’ he translated with a very disarming smile . |
| 22 | They finished with an amazingly professional-looking canter demipirouette followed by a flying change as they hit the track . |
| 23 | A typical section began with a floridly imaginative scamper through C-Jam Blues , using the tune only as an occasional reference . |
| 24 | The new EGs have been rethought and in part redesigned with a less obvious PRS body style . |
| 25 | Well done , that was absolutely first rate , I mean erm , it was a difficult er , task you had , especially as the book was n't in the library , of which I am deeply apologetic , because I thought it was , and er , I thought you er , you coped with a very difficult assignment extremely well , and I think you can have an extra and I 'm sure everyone else thinks so too . |
| 26 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 27 | The careers of the bourgeois world were indeed open to talent , but the family with a modest amount of education , property and social connections among others of the middle rank undoubtedly started with a relatively enormous advantage ; not least the capacity to intermarry with others of the same social status , in the same line of business or with resources which could be combined with their own . |
| 28 | The event — held last week in the bowels of the Hotel Georges V — started with a wildly successful evening thrash attended by 3,500 people . |
| 29 | He laughed with a little more confidence . |
| 30 | Her mother , she thought with a most annoying pride , who was one of the few genuinely creative women scientists around and in whose success , were it anyone except her mother 's , she would be rejoicing . |