Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They put clean nightdresses on , and they straighten their bed , and then they lie down with their hands crossed on their chest . |
| 2 | Leg strengthening 1 : crouch down with your hands held behind your neck and your head held high . |
| 3 | And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre . |
| 4 | He was still there lying down with his eyes shut . |
| 5 | what sit down with his flies undone ? |
| 6 | To save space he and Angela had been packed in with their faces jammed against each other 's feet . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to walk in with my eyes closed . |
| 8 | ‘ Despite all the talk about Benn boxing behind his jab , he still rushes in with his head exposed and I will pick my counters just like Lennox Lewis did on Saturday . ’ |
| 9 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 10 | She seemed to be in a hurry , striding quickly along with her hands tucked in her large flapping sleeves , boots kicking up dust . |
| 11 | She sat bent over with her arms held under her womb , supporting the weight of it a little . |
| 12 | He hit the floor hard , choked , then rolled over with his head cradled in his arms and his body curled up tightly . |
| 13 | One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left . |
| 14 | Do you think she went up with her arms raised ; I kind of see her that way . |
| 15 | When Norman walked in all dressed up with his hair slicked back , he got a muted response and one wag shouted ‘ on that count you 've got about three supporters ! ’ . |
| 16 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 17 | Eventually the dog is pulled out with its jaws fastened on the nearly dead fox 's throat . |
| 18 | He turned and walked over to the window where he stood looking out with his hands clasped behind his back . |
| 19 | Her patient had finished her tea and now leant back with her eyes closed and the swollen ankle propped up on another chair . |
| 20 | Miranda 's hair flamed against the pillow as she lay back with her eyes closed , thinking , Too late to stop him now . |
| 21 | Felicity is lying back with her eyes closed , and her face lifted to the light . |
| 22 | Felicity , lying back with her eyes closed in the late afternoon sun , smiles . |
| 23 | Caledor sent his ambassador back with his beard shaved off and said if Gotrek wanted compensation he should come to Ulthuan and collect it . |
| 24 | He wanted to go and see Therese , thank her , warn her , but now had no energy for anything but getting to his office , sipping his brandy , and sitting back with his eyes closed , trying to steady his breathing . |
| 25 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 26 | It 's sad to have to be so cynical but if the price of safety is walking around with your eyes lowered and avoiding potentially dangerous situations , such as lifts home with near strangers , it has to be done . |
| 27 | If you do n't you 're not wal you 're walking around with your eyes closed . |
| 28 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 29 | They prance about with their eyes closed , speaking in tongues . |
| 30 | Does lazy , for example , mean the person arrives late every day , or takes an excessive lunch break , or never volunteers for anything , or lies about with his eyes closed half the time ? |