Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 2 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 3 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 4 | ... Also , managers often became enamoured with specific planning concepts , employing them with a fervor that inhibited sensitivity to special considerations and that diverted attention from other important issues … . |
| 5 | Its mission was to skim low over the earth 's surface and search out sinners , devouring them with a snap of its mighty beak . |
| 6 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 7 | The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl . |
| 8 | Luke showed yet another side of his personality : he laughed a lot , amusing them with a fund of stories , some of which , Merrill conceded with grudging admiration , were told against himself . |
| 9 | He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 11 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 12 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
| 13 | He walked across to the window , leaning back against it , surveying her with a mixture of contempt and distaste . |
| 14 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 15 | Mr. Pegg was convicted on 25 March 1985 before Caulfield J. and a jury of the murder of one Peter Goddard by stabbing him with a knife . |
| 16 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 17 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 18 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 19 | Shortly after the appearance of the SL , Thorn EMI Lighting introduced the 2D by launching it with a range of fittings designed by Conran Associates . |
| 20 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 21 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 22 | We have developed a procedure for quantifying a specific mRNA purifying it with a selected biotinylated oligonucleotide ( sbODN ) and measuring its absorbance by free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 24 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 25 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
| 26 | Equating it with a study of the constitution , however , may owe less to a desire for realism than to a lack of concern about legal matters . |
| 27 | Dictionary look-up techniques represent the top-down approach , and involve verifying the input word by matching it with a dictionary word . |
| 28 | He has forgiven himself and others have forgiven him and he views life from a new angle , rebuilding it with a more solid base . |
| 29 | The official was convicted of criminal damage for ramming the craft with a motorboat , then whacking it with a shovel . |
| 30 | The muted notes which are found at the beginning of bar 7 should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position ( approx ) and then picking them with a gentle up-stroke using your r/hand index finger . |