Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 2 | But until we have found out why the generalisation holds by complementing it with an account of the actions and attitudes of individuals , we will not have explained what is going on . |
| 3 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 4 | Worrying about your weight is more likely to lead to comforting yourself with a piece of chocolate that it is to assist in burning up calories . |
| 5 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 6 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 7 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 8 | The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent . |
| 9 | Their village post office has helped by providing them with a window display of Wild Thing models . |
| 10 | Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section . |
| 11 | Baxter used to delight in taunting him with the nickname ‘ Oor Wullie ’ and in his biography described Allen as ‘ a pillar of the church , a model of rectitude and , not to labour the point , a pompous pain in the neck . ’ |
| 12 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 13 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 14 | Unlike the screen control codes , the printer control codes can not be strung together or explicitly set by preceding them with a " + " or " - " . |
| 15 | That twist is not limited to lumbering us with a sinful nature . |
| 16 | You know nothing about me , and yet you insist on crediting me with a lifestyle more likely your own ! ’ |
| 17 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 18 | However , one can not satisfactorily identify the question what a speaker meant in saying something with the question what caused his utterance . |
| 19 | And yet , when they were together , he insisted on treating her with a cool , bland charm which left her feeling baffled and frustrated . |
| 20 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 21 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 22 | The County Council has assisted by providing me with a telephone and a personal computer linked to the main frame at County Hall . |
| 23 | Internal labels are defined by preceding them with a full stop . |
| 24 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |
| 25 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 26 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 27 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
| 28 | The Freeman coding can be further enhanced by supplementing it with an indication of what proportion of the whole character each vector represents . |
| 29 | Union power had to be broken , and this was achieved by linking it with the breakdown in law and order . |
| 30 | The adequacy of the conjecture is to be tested by confronting it with the history of science , or , more precisely , given the historical work done by Lakatos and his followers , by confronting it with the history of physics . |