Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the severity of the Waldsterben syndrome there is no time to lose in grappling with its causes and formulating effective control strategies ’ . |
| 2 | Other comparisons of the two systems , by Reynolds and Sullivan ( 1987 ) , Sutherland and Gallagher ( 1987 ) , and by Steedman ( 1983 ) , are inconclusive on the grounds that they are not comparing like with like but the outcomes of a well established and resourced system with one still grappling with its identity and purpose . |
| 3 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 4 | With that she carried on walking with her father . |
| 5 | my picture muse walking with her hound amid skies like pink paper flowers . |
| 6 | The woman was killed while she was out walking with her husband , when two cars collided at traffic lights . |
| 7 | Beryl East , an elderly woman from Sussex , died at a north Devon beauty spot when she fell into the flooded East Lyn River while walking with her husband . |
| 8 | Lorry driver Alan Brown saw a woman walking with her head bowed with a man following one pace behind . |
| 9 | They went to Oakport Woods , leaving their bicycles at the big iron gate , and walking with their books over the grass to the belt of trees along Oakport Lake . |
| 10 | Not only is there no aggression but they have a whole repertoire of gestures — walking with their arms round each other 's shoulders , holding hands — which , in the West , are all gestures reserved for romantic relationships with girlfriends . |
| 11 | Often on the beach , when he 'd run on ahead looking for flat pebbles to skim over the sea , he 'd glanced back to find them walking with their arms around one another . |
| 12 | One of Abu Khadra 's first memories — and one that he went back to again and again — was of walking with his brothers Rabah and Anwar through his father 's olive grove in Jaffa to visit the house of his uncles . |
| 13 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 14 | Looking out of the bedroom window , Elizabeth saw Bob Lamb the shepherd walking with his dog down the track from the high moor . |
| 15 | Mr Adams , keen on nature , wildlife and bird-spotting , often went walking with his sons in the Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 16 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 17 | The head of the Homicide Section of the Guatemalan National Police Department of Criminal Investigation was killed in August 1991 while walking with his wife and child 70 metres from the National Police headquarters in Guatemala City . |
| 18 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 19 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 20 | One Sunday soon afterwards Mr Utterson was walking with his friend Enfield when they happened to pass through the narrow side-street again . |
| 21 | He remembered one Thursday morning walking with his mother from Primrose Cottage to a place called Blackedge Top , an old quarry on a hill . |
| 22 | He was high in Upper Teesdale , walking with his eyes pinned to the ground . |
| 23 | Owen Connell , 20 , from Bishopbriggs , was walking with his brother and a friend in Clyde Street near Customhouse Quay gardens when he was seriously assaulted by four or five youths . |
| 24 | Paul , 20 , died after he was stabbed while walking with his brother , Peter , and a friend , Tom Cole , on Whitehouse Loan , in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Walking with his family to dinner in Houston , Mr Bush admitted after early results : ‘ It does n't look good . ’ |
| 26 | I was walking and he was with his mum and I looked up cos I know what his mum looks like and he was walking with his mum . |
| 27 | We were walking with our legs on ledges either side of a narrow passage when one of the ledges came to an abrupt end . |
| 28 | I try walking with my hands over my ears , and it 's a bit better . |
| 29 | One day in the spring of 1941 , as I was walking with my schoolfriend Wilma in Via Cavour , the elegant street in the centre of Parma , we saw two men go up to another who was quietly reading the paper outside a café . |
| 30 | Disinfectants act on bacteria in two main ways namely as cell toxins poisoning or destroying the cell or by interfering with their metabolism . |