Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | 15.38 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 7 should continue to participate extensively in widely varied group work in a range of groupings where they should now be encouraged to take on an increasingly responsible and , as appropriate , individual or independent role , eg by taking notes of the discussion and checking them with the group , representing group views in plenary sessions . |
| 3 | Some hours later , out she went again , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 4 | Next morning , when the glimmer in the skulls ' eyes had died away , she went off as before , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 5 | The Conservatives successfully mounted a campaign which linked welfare scroungers , individualism , anti-collectivism , breaking the dependency culture and replacing it with the enterprise culture , trade unionists as criminals , moral decline , the need for personal responsibility and personal discipline . |
| 6 | I believe that the public want us to get on with abolishing the community charge and replacing it with the council tax . |
| 7 | Now the new pope , Innocent , was escorted to the front of the basilica where on a platform in full view of the people , he was crowned with the tiara , the senior deacon ( i.e. the archdeacon ) removing the mitre from the pope 's head and replacing it with the tiara . |
| 8 | In animals , the term is also used for the technique of inactivating the nucleus of an egg and replacing it with the nucleus of a body cell . |
| 9 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 10 | Because she was staying at home with her father Eva had the task of sorting out her mother 's possessions and sharing them with the family . |
| 11 | In fact , accompanying the introduction of the poll tax in 1988 ( and surviving it with the move to the ‘ council tax ’ ) traditional accounting was changed . |
| 12 | On Dec. 2 the newly elected acting Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas [ see p. 39205 ] issued a decree appointing Deputy Premier Bronislovas Lubys as the country 's new Prime Minister and charging him with the formation of a Cabinet . |
| 13 | Researchers from the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment spent FOUR YEARS examining case histories of child deaths in the area and comparing them with the rest of the country . |
| 14 | Initially , we examined the main effect of phonological processing by combining the results from the two experimental tasks and comparing them with the control tasks . |
| 15 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 16 | Even assuming a 1 per cent a year improvement in fuel efficiency from the early 1990s on and combining it with the government 's lowest traffic forecast , carbon dioxide emissions could increase by 20 per cent by 2020 . |
| 17 | The red glow from the furnaces fell across the treadmills , turning the steel mesh to angry crimson , bathing the creatures inside them to eerie , unnatural life , blending and merging them with the machinery , until it was very nearly impossible to tell where the treadmills ended and the human creatures began … |
| 18 | Given a subject , already identified , and given the wholly reasonable assumption that in our linguistic thoughts we do not equate properties with entities , there would be no conceivable point in introducing a property , and introducing it with the sense of " this completes what I am about " unless that property is to be taken as applicable to the subject . |
| 19 | Lee was behind him , holding on to the back of his anorak and bumping him with the torch . |
| 20 | Sr Gillian Price , a nun based in Hertfordshire , has ignited a debate in religious newspapers by condemning the Vatican 's position on the death penalty , and contrasting it with the Church 's unequivocal stand on abortion . |
| 21 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |