Example sentences of "with [pron] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I set my alarm for seven as well and by quarter past I was standing outside Frank and Sal 's flat with my trusty nailfile doing the business on their Yale lock . |
| 2 | Sylvia found herself with her naked slit facing the ceiling , and felt his fingers busily parting her thick cunt-lips . |
| 3 | The Vietnamese government 's increased willingness to accept forced repatriations in the face of known US disapproval was believed to stem from its desire to improve ties with its ASEAN neighbours following the signing of the Cambodian peace accord in Paris on Oct. 23 [ see p. 38511 ] . |
| 4 | The limbs of vertebrates can be very different — compare that of a bat with its long fingers supporting the web for flying , with the long pole-like structure of a horse 's leg , where all the digits except one seem to have disappeared . |
| 5 | Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street . |
| 6 | To the north is the old , rugged brick wall , punctuated by windows , included Rodney Fitch 's glazed office , with its private balcony/terrace overlooking the café ( an ambiguous architectural gesture — power ? accessibility ? surveillance ? ) . |
| 7 | The Grand Palace dominates the city , with its gleaming spires piercing the skyline and its Buddha statues gazing serenely into space . |
| 8 | The church , like the others on the island , is a three-aisled basilica with its western apse extending the full height of the church . |
| 9 | With its dramatic buildings dominating the architecture of Reims and its ancient cellars , this house receives thousands of visitors each year . |
| 10 | The carpet , painted to simulate Aubusson , reflects the pattern of the early Palladian ceiling with its merry spirits encircling the earth . |
| 11 | The loveliest , to my mind , is Melford Hall , whose charming , octagonal Jacobean gatehouse is reached along an avenue of clipped yew trees and , with its high windows flooding the octagon with light , is my fantasy of the ideal study . |
| 12 | Certain classical pieces came to symbolise the war — the Warsaw Concerto , for example , and , of course , Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony , with its initial notes representing the ‘ V ’ sign in Morse . |
| 13 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 14 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 15 | As we write , battles include a handsome Victorian set of stables in Enfield , Hertfordshire — a home for retired ponies which the local council wants to close ; Brocklesby railway station — a delightful example of a country station built for the local landlord but empty and decaying ; the grade II* listed Belgrave Chapel in Darwen , Lancashire , with its Gothic pinnacles dominating the town but under threat of demolition ; and the beautiful but overgrown park and gardens of Uffington in Lincolnshire , in danger of being smothered by executive homes , a golf club and a hotel . |
| 16 | Many of the bone-headed ceratopsians could swim with their front feet pawing the lake bed like hippos , both buoyed up and cooled by the water . |
| 17 | With their combined torches flooding the corridor with light they moved fast and instinctively . |
| 18 | That did it With his well-known temper getting the better of him , he jumped on the fish with both feet The fish was almost spent With both hands locked around the monster 's tail , the gleeful Yanto dragged it through the shallow water on to the hard sand . |
| 19 | The day starts with our tail-lift bus leaving the centre at 9.30 am to pick up the clients with the help of 2 escorts . |