Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annunciata , coming in singing with coffee , was reprimanded for causing a headache to begin on that instant and Wilson could not help feeling triumphant . |
| 2 | Perdita felt too tired to eat , but when she tried her steak it was pure poetry , tender as velvet , juicy as an orange , and so exploding with flavour that she was soon piling her plate with potato purée , tomato salad and geranium-red barbecue sauce . |
| 3 | Rob was so obviously brimming with enthusiasm that Merrill had to say carefully , ‘ I think it sounds delightful . ’ |
| 4 | Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast … |
| 5 | Hot flushes are caused by the capillaries suddenly filling with blood to give a sudden rush to the face , neck and shoulders , with extra body heat and perspiration . |
| 6 | His presence inhibited her , completely destroying the pleasant atmosphere which had prevailed between Rob and herself , and after a few moments she took no part in the talk , merely listening with interest to Rob 's account of his holiday . |
| 7 | By ten that evening Polly was literally reeling with exhaustion . |
| 8 | So starting with television , we said at the er , announcement of the Doulton , Camco demerger that we intended to develop further in the visual media , and so we are setting up a T D , T V division in which we 'll place all of our T V interests , at present just Thames , the investment in B Sky B and er , Yorkshire Tyne Tees , but watch this space , we e we intend to add to this er , division . |
| 9 | Francesca was as pretty as a picture and apparently glowing with health . |
| 10 | She came in bubbling with excitement ; all evening she had brimmed with some secret mirth . |
| 11 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 12 | And those flowers are literally buzzing with honey-making , pollinating bees and greenfly-eating hoverflies . |
| 13 | Mr Major is furious at the rebels ' tactics in gleefully voting with Labour and the Liberal Democrats when it suits them . |
| 14 | Yeah but effectively the customers are only dealing with plastic of |
| 15 | You 'll work until you 're literally dropping with tiredness . |
| 16 | But whatever symbolic power this picture has , it is diminished by the suggestion that , stylistically , the picture is merely playing with tradition . |
| 17 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |
| 18 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 19 | It was obvious from this that in going into storms we were quite literally playing with fire . |
| 20 | The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . |
| 21 | President Leonid Kravchuk , in a speech reported on Sept. 10 , called for swift economic reform , criticizing the increasingly bitter arguments between the Supreme Soviet ( Supreme Rada ) and the government , and apparently siding with opposition parties against Prime Minister Vitold Fokin . |
| 22 | It 's alright he 's only playing with dog look . |
| 23 | He looked steadily at her and Jenna moved back obediently , her heart suddenly pounding with anxiety because she had no idea what Alain was talking about . |
| 24 | There was controversy in the second-century churches whether a Christian could be a magistrate or bear public authority , activities which might require apparently compromising with idolatry or condemning criminals to execution . |
| 25 | His cool , shuttered gaze had dropped slowly to the open neck of her blouse , and , suddenly tingling with self-consciousness , she lifted a casual hand to her throat , fingering the silky collar , her skin warming under that overtly masculine scrutiny . |
| 26 | Eventually , if Jean-Claude wished to go on living with death and the dead he would have to do so alone . |
| 27 | Behind him in the bathroom stood a chipped old tub slowly filling with water that was the colour of weak tea ; the bathroom walls had been replastered and roughened for tiling , but they did n't have any tiles . |
| 28 | ‘ Six-year-olds are n't exactly brimming with curiosity about gays and lesbians — or sexuality in general . |
| 29 | Even the Commonweal School group photograph on the wall : September 1948 , with Harry featured twice , having sprinted along the back while the camera tracked round , thus appearing with smile and combed hair at the extreme left and with smile and tousled hair at the extreme right . |
| 30 | ‘ You outrageous dyke , you 're just oozing with lust ! ’ he said . |