Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connery is n't playing with politics or toying with a party allegiance ; he opinion is founded on his life experience . |
| 2 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 3 | Should be done by carefully dabbing or sponging with a wool — or silk-compatible cleaning solution for removing each specific substance ( wine , grease , coffee , etc. ) until as much as possible of the discolouring substance has been removed . |
| 4 | Up to that time , I was simply playing , or experimenting with the girls . |
| 5 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 6 | There was something uncanny , almost obscene , to Robyn 's eye , about the sudden , violent , yet controlled movements of the machine , darting forward and retreating , like some steely reptile devouring its prey or copulating with a passive mate . |
| 7 | None of us needs any particular other any more , so acquaintance is a whim , flowering or dying with the moment . |
| 8 | The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man . |
| 9 | This is some unlawful action or omission endangering or interfering with the lives , comfort , property or common rights of the public . |
| 10 | On those facts C would , in my opinion , be committing a contempt of court , because he would be knowingly impeding or interfering with the administration of justice by the court in the action between A and B. ’ |
| 11 | The junior will observe an experienced nurse explaining investigations , comforting bereaved relatives or communicating with a deaf patient . |
| 12 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 13 | This enables it to be easily removed for winter storage or recoating with a wood preservative . |
| 14 | He stresses the importance of reward , and mentions different ways of praising the horse : ‘ The simplest way for the rider to show his appreciation is by patting or speaking with a soothing voice . |
| 15 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 16 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 17 | As a teenager , I often felt impelled to imagine that I was running or flying with the wind in the dark . |
| 18 | Appointments to the Court of Appeal , to the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , and to the offices of Lord Chief Justice and President of the Family Division are made by the Prime Minister after consultation with the Lord Chancellor , who himself consults with senior members of the judiciary before making his choice or consulting with the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | I was left with the option of forgetting it , or running with the idea myself . ’ |
| 20 | This has resulted in some members leaving these areas of practice , or having to face higher costs , or coping with an intrusion into their affairs that they resent . |
| 21 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 22 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 23 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 24 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 25 | It would have been inconsiderate of the King and his wife to spare them their self-imposed task ; to dismiss the sweating craftsmen to their homes to enjoy the feast-time in front of a longfire with their wives and children , or drinking with the Earl in his comfortable timber hall , well fired and warmly hung , on the opposite shore . |
| 26 | The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business . |
| 27 | For example some mothers feel very embarrassed about reprimanding their child or dealing with a tantrum in public and so the child rapidly learns that a tantrum could produce sweets if enough fuss is created ( McAuley and McAuley 1977 ) . |
| 28 | There may be a choice between concentrating on the group task or dealing with the conflict . |
| 29 | It seems natural to regard dishonestly keeping or dealing with the property as theft ( as it is now in the case of bailees ) . |
| 30 | However , dicta in Oakley v. Lyster went further and suggested that a bare denial of the plaintiff 's title unaccompanied by any possession of or dealing with the goods constituted conversion . |