Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved sinuously , dancing round its adversary , thrusting with a slender spear and protecting itself gracefully with a brightly-polished shield . |
| 2 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 3 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 4 | The next day , place the black fondant tiles all over the roof , in neat overlapping rows , securing them on with a little water or royal icing . |
| 5 | She found it obnoxious that her son permitted himself a living relationship when , like her , he should be occupying himself exclusively with a dead one . |
| 6 | Pulling herself together with a visible effort , she managed to glare at him . |
| 7 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 8 | These can be removed simply by wiping them off with a damp cloth . |
| 9 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 10 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 11 | He was kissing her now with a delicate urgency , her cheeks and temples , her closed eyelids and long , slender throat . |
| 12 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 13 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 15 | In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act . |
| 16 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 17 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 18 | Stiffly , she spun on her heel and began to march away , but Roman caught her arm , hauling her back with an insulting lack of effort . |
| 19 | Tying meant fastening him in with a feeding tray . |
| 20 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 21 | Leonora took out sweaters and shirts and underwear , putting them away with a vague feeling of trespass which failed to keep her from peeping into a folding leather picture frame lying at the bottom of the suitcase . |
| 22 | Now , arriving in the safety of her own room , Maggie undressed , folding her clothes and putting them away with an unusual neatness for a fifteen year-old . |
| 23 | Taking the techno bones of the original and fleshing them out with a chugging hard funk bassline , they 've de-housed the sound to create a tune which complements the original yet is individual in its own right . |
| 24 | Taking the techno bones of the original and fleshing them out with a chugging hard funk bassline , they 've de-housed the sound to create a tune which complements the original yet is individual in its own right . |
| 25 | Remove any existing weather bar by prising it away with an old chisel |
| 26 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 27 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 28 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 29 | Following it up with a barbaric dose of guitar pop like ‘ Kennedy ’ would have seen off any new-found ‘ fans ’ and old faithfuls would have welcomed back their indie darlings at the drop of a balalaika . |
| 30 | ‘ Your work is still creating interest , and the women of the Fabian Society are talking of following it up with a scientific examination of the social and economic condition of the women in the poorer parts of London , carrying on where Booth in his great survey of poverty left off . ’ |