Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Risdon , 14 , was walking with friends at Whitstone Primary School , near Bude , Cornwall , when the wall suddenly toppled . |
| 2 | You open a song with a line like ‘ Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street ’ — well , what do you have to do ? ’ |
| 3 | Here there was room to have a dig at ‘ trade unionists … too , screaming abuse and interfering with others on their way to work ’ , alleging that excitement on picket lines and at rock films amounted to the same thing : ‘ These are all manifestations of the primitive herd instinct . ’ |
| 4 | After opening with rounds of 73–74–71 , the Cheshire county player was level with Stuart MacPherson of Felixstowe on 218 with a round to go . |
| 5 | Decay lowers morale in communities , even to rock-bottom , equating with levels of grinding poverty — inescapable , and classic breeding ground for so much anti-social behaviour including crime . |
| 6 | Amendments : 10 sheets revised plans and sections , alternating with pages of descriptive letter press , bound in paper covers , 1 book of reference . |
| 7 | The most obvious effect is a frenzied rage alternating with periods of euphoria , excitement and irritability , often subsiding into passive withdrawal and indifference . |
| 8 | The general pattern of activity consisted of periods of quiescence alternating with periods of activity . |
| 9 | The normal colonic motility patterns described by Narducci et al consist of periods of motor quiescence irregularly alternating with periods of activity . |
| 10 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 11 | The new pediplanation approach springs from the work of W. Penck , Kirk Bryan and Jessen … ( p 643 ) the sequence of major cyclic denudation upon all the continents alternating with episodes of elevation and mountain building , together with the relations of both phases , through coastal plain and shelf deposits , with major events in the ocean basins , are not disturbed haphazardly through geologic time but are in broad temporal conformity one with another . |
| 12 | And they resented the cliche of representing the success of the band by a series of brief musical sequences alternating with shots of trains , because their clapping accompaniment was interrupted as soon as it began . |
| 13 | [ complete report quoted — three pages , ending with signatures of members of the medical team ] |
| 14 | His last performance was another sell-out , ending with scenes of adulation normally reserved for pop stars . |
| 15 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 16 | Characteristic activity : necessarily occurring with adverbs like always and continually . |
| 17 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 18 | Watch out for those returning with tails between legs before mid-season . |
| 19 | For it is now certain that she left Shrewsbury on the cart that was returning with gifts from the devout to our needy and afflicted abbey . |
| 20 | He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution . |
| 21 | For the pastellist , an essential tape is Progressing with Pastel by Barry Watkin ( APV Films ) , whilst his Pastel Landscapes is also a delight , as is Painting with Pastels by Aubrey Phillips ( APV Films ) . |
| 22 | A pleasant period is ahead of you , as opportunities for socialising with others of your kind may be at their peak . |
| 23 | After all , the newspapers are brimming with reports of horrendous attacks on women , so the risk must be considerable . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to thee Thedric , ’ she moaned quietly , her lips quivering and her eyes now brimming with tears as the good Lewis laid a hand on the pristine-white plaster encasing her upper arm . |
| 25 | It is in a well-known and attractive location , and is brimming with possibilities for future expansion . ’ |
| 26 | The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage . |
| 27 | The recorded destruction of documented Modern buildings , or their determined neglect seem to me to be the only two ways in which DOCOMOMO can remain true to the spirit of Modern architecture while communicating with representatives of the all-powerful museum culture that has architecture in its grip . |
| 28 | But such work must be done , and field men put in several hours each week in their area offices , writing reports , keeping records up to date , drafting letters , answering the telephone and communicating with colleagues in the field and staff at headquarters . |
| 29 | The pace of technological change is such that the latest generation of machines is now capable of drawing graphs , working out algebraic formulae , correcting spelling mistakes and communicating with computers outside the examination room . |
| 30 | When Laplace , late in the eighteenth century , applied his nebular hypothesis to the problem , deliberately dispensing with concepts of design , it could look as if Newton 's God had been made redundant . |