Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv prt] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 2 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 3 | Practise this the full length of the training hall and then switch feet , keeping the right foot in place and stepping out with the left . |
| 4 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |
| 5 | And racing along with the flood , tossed from peak to peak , plunged into troughs , was Mr Bishop , arms flung wide , eyes open , staring up at the sky . |
| 6 | ‘ There they are , innocent , uncomplicated and trusting , accepting the world for what it is and getting on with the business of enjoying it . |
| 7 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 8 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 9 | Playing about with the engine and playing about with the body work , trying to do it up and all this and they just they just |
| 10 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |