The phrase "with manner" is a valid phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the way in which something is done. For example, "She completed the project with manner and poise."
In (D), the process sped is infused with Manner, and means moved quickly (Macquarie Dictionary, accessed 14/11/15).
As Figure 9 shows, ranking circumstances account for just over a quarter of all circumstantial meanings (27.2%), processes infused with manner another 21%.
However, Halliday and Matthiessen do state that circumstantial meaning can map onto other constituents - onto processes, as processes infused with manner as per (D) (I sped home as fast as I could), and onto participants, for example the Attribute: circumstance, as per (C) (The letter is on the mantelpiece).
It forces you to distill the key factors in a transparent, easy-to-work-with manner, and this can generate further insights and understanding.
3 Use your umbrella with manners.
Wonderful, gentle people, with manners like flowers.
His provincial obsession with manners, bearing and etiquette?
These bilious overreactions are concerned less with language than with manners.
Same obsession with manners, same ironic take on the gender divide.
A Democratic colleague once described him as "a pit bull with manners".
The two shared a similar obsession with manners, and an ironic take on the gender divide.
