Example sentences of "[vb past] with [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was pointless trying to compare or liken these mountains to others , they had individual stature and grace , they rose with their own majesty from valleys I could only dream about . |
| 2 | TRAGIC pilot Ken McWhinney died at the controls of the plane he lovingly built with his own hands . |
| 3 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 4 | Communication was the basis of his work ; he invited contributions from those with particular expertise and these he collated with his own experience in the most comprehensive form to present a reliable work of reference . |
| 5 | I was bloody difficult because I came with my own agenda and I was n't going to have a whitewash . |
| 6 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 7 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 8 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 9 | Twenty four parents were living with partners , six were single parents , and the remainder lived with their own parents . |
| 10 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |
| 11 | As the war progressed Hitler tended to listen only to advice that agreed with his own views and no one was willing to disagree with him . |
| 12 | Professor Murgulescu , the original head of her field , was subordinated to her and witnessed her takeover of his institute which she amalgamated with her own operations to obliterate any trace of professional independence . |
| 13 | She was acutely embarrassed suddenly , but her body still glowed with its own heat , as if some white-hot reactor had been ignited inside her ; she was still melting and longing inside , her senses way beyond recall . |
| 14 | Thus the hold of the parish priest was uncontested in rural Spain especially in the stable peasant societies of the Basque country and Catalonia and where , as in Galicia outside the towns , he sided with his own class in the land war . |
| 15 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 16 | Suddenly Harry felt the narrow cell so filled and overfilled with his own dread and hatred that he could hardly breathe . |
| 17 | He tinkered with his own music at home . |
| 18 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
| 19 | All the other ITV companies throughout the land coped with their own flood of interest . |
| 20 | The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs . |
| 21 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 22 | He belonged to the French communist party because the values of that party , as he perceived them , coincided with his own beliefs . |
| 23 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 24 | In making his assessment that a breach was likely to occur , the senior policeman was entitled to take into account not only the conduct of the appellants themselves , and that of the people by whom they were accompanied , but also what they had heard and seen on television and read in the newspapers about the way in which the miners ’ strike was conducted , ‘ and to exercise their common sense and judgment on that material ’ as well as what they saw with their own eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 27 | Saw with my own eyes that hotshot Pulvidon ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I saw with my own eyes . |
| 30 | And ca n't you even remember what you saw with your own eyes in this house ? ’ |