Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For police forces struggling to cope with record levels of crime , arresting people and locking them up is only half the battle . |
| 2 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 3 | Donna was taken into foster care at the end of 1986 , and there seems little prospect of her returning to live with Margy in the near future . |
| 4 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 5 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 6 | Difficult meeting as some Social Workers are refusing to work with colleagues and have taken steps to frustrate the function of the Area Team . |
| 7 | Yes that 's right er I er believe in fact I know because the Duke says so in the Racing Post today the reason he 's gone there is to get Adrian Maguire because Adrian has ridden him already in Ireland and the owner wanting to stick with Maguire which you ca n't blame him for |
| 8 | This year , by refusing to negotiate with Bucharest on a new agreement , the European Community has shown that ‘ differentiation ’ can be applied negatively , too . |
| 9 | Known as ArtsLink , the programme has two components : its Collaborative Projects support American individuals or groups of up to five people seeking to collaborate with counterparts in Eastern Europe on projects in the visual , performing and media arts , architecture and design or literature . |
| 10 | ‘ This is what we 're seeking to do with chemical — or feedstock — recycling , ’ says Dent . |
| 11 | What they are seeking to share with others must have become true for them . |
| 12 | She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically , wanting to cry with rage and shame . |
| 13 | We have always said so , she thought , wanting to cry with annoyance , as a family we have always agreed about it . |
| 14 | Nearly all the big clubs voted against the deal , wanting to stay with ITV where the product , including sponsors , would get maximum exposure . |
| 15 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 16 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 17 | However the FA is to put a proposal in Rome to modify the offside law so that ‘ interfering with play ’ becomes ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ in the hope of reducing the number of involuntary offsides . |
| 18 | If he ca n't cope with me , how is he going to cope with people like Boris Yeltsin if he is elected ? ’ |
| 19 | He said that unless Niki gave in and raced on the terms offered , he was going to go with Keke the following year . |
| 20 | Well , we 're going to continue with press releases after lunch , but let me just , I mean in a sense , those were fiction . |
| 21 | After that , I 'm going to appear with Jack on the Today show in New York , and I have an offer to star in a new Tarzan movie . ’ |
| 22 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 23 | The proposed new contract for general practice is trying to force general practitioners to spend far more time sitting in the surgery waiting to consult with patients . |
| 24 | A person who was swept along by the crowd ( in a literal bodily sense ) , or who encountered unexpected barriers when attempting to comply with police conditions , would be able to avail himself of this defence . |
| 25 | And the fourth and final leg of the erm Radio Oxford yankee erm is in the tenth race which is the nine forty eight , and I 'm going to stick with Darra Ash in trap four . |
| 26 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 27 | At the very least , the catchers are not going to mark with rope burns an animal that , when broken , will be worth nearly £1,000 . |
| 28 | ‘ What are we going to do with Professor Thornton tomorrow ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What are you going to do with O'Brien ? ’ |
| 30 | What am I going to do with Balwinder , who has finished already ? |