Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common for them to drown in heavy rain because they stand gazing skyward with their beaks open to see where the rain is coming from . |
| 2 | It must have been a joke , a little trick of the kind fathers like to play on their children , toying idly with their power , whimsical tyrants . |
| 3 | He had turned on to his back and was sculling slowly with his forearms , face-up to the evening sky , the chill spreading in his limbs , spreading up under his ribcage , spreading behind his eyes . |
| 4 | driving away with it |
| 5 | We heard from Mr Edgar that his sister had died , and that he was returning soon with his young nephew . |
| 6 | He therefore came out of the temple walking backwards with his whole head covered by a cloth and immediately dipped his head in a basin of water before removing the covering . |
| 7 | This summer will see 2,000 Friends of the Pleistocene swarming over the coastal range , whacking away with their hammers . |
| 8 | But the odds are on them walking away with their own business — a team business — at the end of it , ’ said Ms Liddell . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs Olive Davis , 47 , was walking home with her husband , Joe , 59 , when they saw the crash and she spoke of how Mr Swales died in her arms . |
| 11 | And then h instead of walking home from the chapel on Sunday night with my mother , he started walking home with her father . |
| 12 | He was walking quickly with his head down , running on invisible rails . |
| 13 | Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them . |
| 14 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 15 | And then , when she looked out from the window of her room in the Palings Hotel , there he was , a star performer modest amid the crowd , the Great Zeno , walking past with his twin , Luke Mallen . |
| 16 | The situation is quite similar therefore to that with the verbs of perception , which explains why Kruisinga and Erades ( 1960 : 366 ) have pointed out that " the perception or causing is thought of as happening simultaneously with what is perceived or caused " . |
| 17 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |
| 18 | He slept a lot of the time , either in bed or sprawled in the most comfortable chair in the kitchen and snoring loudly with his mouth open . |
| 19 | That 's what I say so nothing much happening today with you ? |
| 20 | THE bookmakers are pressing ahead with their campaign for evening opening of betting shops by next summer . |
| 21 | Despite growing international criticism , the Japanese government is pressing ahead with its plans to ship highly radioactive plutonium from France and Britain to Japan to supply its nuclear-power industry . |
| 22 | ‘ So we will be pressing ahead with our policies on privatisation , deregulation , cutting out waste and keeping the tax burden on companies and individuals as low as we can . |
| 23 | Well if he 's keeping forward with his policies , why did he have to sack the man ? |
| 24 | Now a couple of weeks ago a man called Mr Lamont actually resigned I understand or was he sacked I 'm not quite sure , but when he disappeared off the scene , Mr Major said I am still keeping forward with my policies . |
| 25 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 26 | This may explain a strange scene on a beaker from Stanwick , Northants. , ( fig. 14.12 ) which shows a satyr leaping forward with his typical thin elongated arms stretched out in front of him . |
| 27 | Nelson , apparently unperturbed by the incident , and obviously disinclined to follow Mandy 's advice , was speeding away with his head twisted over his shoulder — watching them , instead of watching the path ! |
| 28 | Jeremy is leaning forward , his face rapt , his body taut ; other men , more sophisticated , sit back , toying absently with their drinks and their girlfriend 's knees as they watch . |
| 29 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |
| 30 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |