Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 2 | The library was a comfortable brown room with tall windows to floor level and doors opening on to the terrace with its crumbling balustrade and ornamental urns . |
| 3 | She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons . |
| 4 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 5 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 6 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 7 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 8 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 9 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 10 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 11 | ‘ Gngh ? ’ he said , looking up at the woman with a puzzled frown . |
| 12 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 13 | DS Shaw who , amongst other things , acted as the squad 's quartermaster , would see to the hiring , and fitting out of the rooms with equipment from central stores . |
| 14 | How this reminds me of old times , ’ she sighed , looking round at the hall with its decorated stalls and paper chains and lanterns hanging from the rafters . |
| 15 | It was less easy to convince herself that the thought of lying down on the bench with fitzAlan , with hardly a stitch of clothing between them , did n't scare the wits out of her . |
| 16 | If I 'm going down to the pub with my mates , I will probably just wear jeans but , again , I 'll wear a nice shirt and smart shoes . |
| 17 | Yeah , I saw , I passed him this morning going down to the garage with some wood |
| 18 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 19 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 20 | Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others . |
| 21 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 22 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 23 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 24 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 25 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 26 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 27 | Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed . |
| 28 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 29 | The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet . |
| 30 | And , by the way , the reason I have to go is because Joanna is going out for the day with Ian Woodall . ’ |