Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender . |
| 2 | Georgina Naylor of the National Heritage Memorial Fund explained that securing the house under the charity was a cheaper solution than placing it with the National Trust and also allowed a greater individuality . |
| 3 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 4 | He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water . |
| 5 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 6 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 7 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 8 | Should , for any reason , a sheet become damaged in service it is simple to replace a Rockwell sheet by unscrewing the damaged sheet and replacing it with a new one . |
| 9 | Removing a plug of turf with the planter and replacing it with a pot-grown cowslip takes seconds . |
| 10 | Experienced PC users can deal with the Trojan by using software tools to make the new Autoexec.Bat file visible and read/write , before deleting and replacing it with a correct version . |
| 11 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 12 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 13 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 14 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 15 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 16 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 17 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |
| 18 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 19 | The bag is fixed to the frame by simply folding the edge of the bag out over the top of the frame and securing it with a large rubber band . |
| 20 | He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose . |
| 21 | We are very grateful for Dr Carey Griffiths and Vic Smith for stepping into the breach and presenting us with a two-part programme . |
| 22 | Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward . |
| 23 | He began with her eyes , capturing and holding her with a laser-like stare that probed deep into her brain . |
| 24 | The blood of circumcision , just like the blood of animal sacrifice , could also be viewed as cleansing the boy of his mother 's blood and acting as a rite of separation , differentiating him from the female , and allying him with the male community . |
| 25 | All the time Frodo and Sam are spinning another , and doing it with the same chronological overlapping . |
| 26 | These difficulties could be overcome by using finely ground copper carbonate rather than metal , and mixing it with an organic glue . |
| 27 | Then rocking the bike off the centrestand , he walked it back out of the space and starting it with a throaty roar , he left her standing there . |
| 28 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 29 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 30 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |