Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth was walking with Betty behind the doctor and April , who was clinging to his arm and , as it were , daintily tripping up . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ Emily replied , walking with confidence to the entrance and knocking on the door . |
| 3 | The land over which the question was to be decided was heathy , with scrub alternating with marsh in the valley . |
| 4 | A fourteen year old boy has been charged with wounding with intent after a boy of the same age was stabbed in the back . |
| 5 | Work a few centimetres/inches on a fairly wide sample of stitches , ending with carriage at the right ready for the next row . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Either alternative would have worked , but we believe that aligning with Novell in the proposed merger is the best way to go . |
| 8 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 9 | After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK . |
| 10 | He will undoubtedly find that the very term ‘ baptism ’ is a difficult one to use all the time , since it really refers to the rite of immersing in or sprinkling with water as a sign of purification and , with Christian churches , admission to the Church . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ As soon as possible , ’ she sighed ecstatically , hardly able to breathe as she felt his strong hands slowly undoing the zip of her dress , shuddering with excitement at the touch of his fingers against her bare skin . |
| 13 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 14 | No , there was no hope of her husband exploding with rage at the thought of leaving her and swearing that he would find a way to remain . |
| 15 | If your 2086 is a vintage model then it is worth checking with Amstrad for an upgrade to the mouse driver . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | FRENCH trainer Francois Doumen is brimming with confidence over The Fellow 's bid for a second successive victory in Kempton 's King George . |
| 18 | Bryan , who spent a week holidaying with Fergie in the south of France , was back at his Chelsea home last night . |
| 19 | He had a lump in his throat and he felt his skin prickling with shame at the thought of his friends and his friends ' mums going in to Pricewell 's and seeing Anna unloading ketchup bottles with ‘ Can I help you ? ’ pinned on her overall . |
| 20 | Vaguely disappointed , the detective sat by the steamed-up window , attracting the occasional glance from the groups of sullen men at the Formica tables , his nose prickling with pleasure at the smell of frying bacon . |
| 21 | Time and again we stopped , hearts beating , the hair on our necks prickling with fear at the eerie , creaking sounds which seemed to match our every move . |
| 22 | Dexter caught Blanche 's eyes twinkling with curiosity for a moment , held by the magnificence of the scene , a fleeting moment when the much abused city appeared beautiful . |
| 23 | His face seemed to be divided into two : the bottom half was all smiling and pleased to see me , the top half was frowning with anxiety about the dinner . |
| 24 | She settled down to tell him how old Alan was while he leant forward , listening with pleasure to the slightly nasal accent of Stoke on Trent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 29 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 30 | I was living with Keren in a squat above the Sex Pistols rehearsal room in Denmark Street . ’ |