Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 2 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 3 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 4 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 5 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 6 | As Sampson observes , the phytogenetic account above of the simultaneous growth of phrase structure and transformational rules yields a prediction agreeing nicely with a principle formulated by the Chomskians . |
| 7 | Yes I remember my granny coming out with the word |
| 8 | She remembered Con coming back with a doctor she had never seen before . |
| 9 | a pickpocket running off with the victim 's wallet and money . |
| 10 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 11 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 12 | Gemayel 's foot tapped up and down as he warmed to his subject , his large oak desk shaking slightly with the vibration . |
| 13 | Then , set against the incredibly complicated French and Indian Wars , the actual story has Hawkeye falling in with the Brits as he falls for the daughter ( Stowe ) of a Scots officer . |
| 14 | A modern parent sitting there with a polo neck jumper on |
| 15 | There are many reasons , apart from the trading of favours , for a legislator or bureau-crat going along with the wishes of the man in the White House . |
| 16 | I remember during the Tet offensive going round with a transistor radio in my ear to hear the latest news . ’ |
| 17 | The panic was receding again , physical need surging back with a vengeance . |
| 18 | She was saved by the waiter shimmying up with the partridges , making a great show of how pink they were inside , pointing out the foie gras stuffing , the celeriac purée and the exquisitely dark and glistening Madeira sauce . |
| 19 | Drunks , men coming from the clubs , occasionally a seaman coming home with a kitbag on his shoulder and you would say good night to him . |
| 20 | Neville Southall , whose saves had prevented Forest running away with the game in the first half , gathered the ball and started to think about clearing it but in the view of the referee , George Tyson , he had thought too long . |
| 21 | Dr David Abramovich , a consultant gynaecologist working closely with the TSSIS , says : ‘ It is caused by a bacteria which is commonly found on the skin , or in the nose , armpit , groin or vagina of about one third of the population without causing any harmful effect . |
| 22 | For a start , Matthew had not slept well , lying awake in his bed with what seemed like every pulse in his body hammering away with the insistence of a drumbeat . |
| 23 | He noticed the King stepping forward with a firming of the step . |
| 24 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 25 | And with hospital food also being the same the whole world over , I could have done with my own wife appearing outside with a food parcel . |
| 26 | Now family reasons can be anything from baby 's colic to a wife running off with the milkman , and there is no arguing with them , because it is indelicate to inquire further , and potentially embarrassing to boot . |
| 27 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 28 | One dead soldier was in a sitting position , his back against a wall , his head leaning backwards with the eyes staring and mouth hanging open , his blonde hair matted and covered with blood . |
| 29 | Derive a formula for the e.m.f. induced around a loop comprising a length of l of short-circuited cable running parallel with the transmission line . |
| 30 | Any scientist coming up with a set of laboratory in vitro tests that accurately predicts the behaviour of a material inside a patient 's mouth would be dearly loved by both government and industry . |