Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grainne felt her heart thudding with such a fierceness that she could almost imagine he would hear it . |
| 2 | She was very pretty , this girl , dressed in a bright green cheong sam , her dark hair gleaming with natural oil , and framing a pert , oriental face . |
| 3 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 4 | Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described . |
| 5 | She appears in the video wearing a lime green mini-dress , surrounded by impassive Schwarzenegger beefcake types in dinner suits , her face fully made up , her mouth gleaming with bright red lipstick . |
| 6 | The fire crackled in the grate , its light competing with that of the little gas lamp . |
| 7 | In silence they walked to the communal oven , and back , and she almost ran with the tray steaming with fragrant tomato and garlic to try to alert Rosa so she could prepare herself for his appearance . |
| 8 | The wind bowing with long cat-gut cries |
| 9 | She gazed back at him , confusion mingling with hurt in her expression . |
| 10 | Mr Janman clashed at the Monday Club meeting with fellow Tory Mike Truman , who contested Ealing Southall for the party at the last election . |
| 11 | The product is now in the last stages of beta testing with 19 customers chosen by BT , and Phonelink chief executive Trevor Burke claims there has been a 95% take-up rate . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems has a deal going with another Russian concern , this one operating under the improbable name Elvis+ : seems they 've cut some kind of technology licence and co-development pact for wireless network communications technology to be used in Sun 's nomadic computing strategy ; Elvis is apparently a privately held company run by one Alexander Galitsky , who by repute was involved in the Soviet space programme , but all should be clear when the pair go public March 16 . |
| 13 | Head east , young man , and search for the silver lining With top City firms forced to ask some of their young accountants to take unpaid leave , CHRISTOPHER FILDES advises a nephew on profitable ways of utilising his time off |
| 14 | She was wearing carpet slippers with pink pom-poms on the front , a wrap-around cotton housecoat tied in the middle , like Mary Ann 's , and a headscarf bulging with sausage-like curlers . |
| 15 | Even though it is a valuable export , some people want to stop the industry spreading with more and larger pits and waste tips . |
| 16 | For the remaining hour Barcelona , encouraged by the news from Kiev where Dynamo beat Sparta Prague 1–0 before a crowd of just 3,000 , played a speculative game vastly at odds with their attacking image , to the extent where veteran defender Alexanko was sent on to replace striker Laudrup in a side defending with eight players in the area . |
| 17 | She was excited despite herself , her eyes darkening , staring through black lashes , her mouth parting with unconscious invitation as she moistened her lips and lowered her hot gaze to his chest . |
| 18 | The funding has been awarded by FORCE , the European programme dealing with continuing training . |
| 19 | In a study dealing with Scottish subjects , the prefix occurred rather frequently , and necessitated great care in searching . |
| 20 | In a study dealing with Scottish subjects , the prefix occurred rather frequently , and necessitated great care in searching . |
| 21 | A pamphlet dealing with Asian Women Tutors for Adult Education . |
| 22 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 23 | Tell your audience of children ( or adults ) that you are going to do an act combining mind reading with great mathematical ability . |
| 24 | In the last chapter dealing with transbinary comparisons the authors show that the proportion of CNAA honours degree students receiving good degrees is on average lower than for their university counterparts . |
| 25 | Taxable ‘ gains ’ can arise from such policies if more than one death benefit is paid , even where the policy has no investment content and no surrender value , because of the rule dealing with partial surrenders of the rights conferred by a policy . |
| 26 | Back on the road , they headed east in silence , Harry 's mind registering with calm intensity every mile and vista of their route , as if this process alone would bring him closer to what Heather had been thinking . |
| 27 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 28 | It had been an uneventful morning , apart from the trainer behaving with more surliness than usual , and Kelly needed to talk to Annie . |
| 29 | Imagine , if you will , one Aztec priest arguing with another in the year 1452 : ‘ I have made calculations that indicate it is nearly impossible for intelligent beings to exist in this hypothetical world you call Europe . |
| 30 | Care should be taken though not to damage the roof covering with sharp objects and it should be noted that , because it is smooth , Rockwell sheet can be slippery when wet . |