Example sentences of "with [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 2 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 3 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 4 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 5 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 6 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 7 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 8 | Even her little house was somehow in keeping with this picture , although it was definitely not St John 's Wood and there was no delicate wrought iron balcony with steps leading down to the green garden . |
| 9 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 10 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 11 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 12 | Emyr Lewis switches from blindside flanker to No 8 , with Perego taking over on the flank . |
| 13 | Between the two lay the formidable barrier of the River Spey , which , as late as 17 March , was said to be ‘ so swelled with snow melting down from the hills that it will not be fordable without going a great way up the country ’ . |
| 14 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 15 | Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry . |
| 16 | With home shopping out of the way , Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing . |
| 17 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 18 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 19 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 20 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 21 | The danger of cracking heads with Bairstow flying in from the other side is as good a reason as any for its omission . |
| 22 | First the Oxford United saga goes on … with things improving out on the pitch , off the field it 's a tangled complex web of debts , transfers , receivers , and … adjourned annual general meetings . |
| 23 | Erm one to do with tenants moving out of the flats , |
| 24 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 25 | Over in the corner of the sizable room an electronic organ was giving out Moon River , the player a young , prematurely bald man , with sweat standing out on the smooth , polished face and head . |
| 26 | big Intasun when that you see all those people needed erm other holidays and then with Yugoslavia coming out of the market because of the unrest there |
| 27 | It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left . |
| 28 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 29 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 30 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |