Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [noun] [conj] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) . |
| 2 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 4 | I drove slowly and unambitiously and the Brooklands responding with smoothness and quiet to rival the best , all the time asking so little of the driver that it was positively soporific . |
| 5 | I admit , I was quaking with fright and this had its usual effect on Old Shallot : weak legs , wobbly belly , heaving chest and total panic . |