Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 2 | But he was most sparing with the anger on celluloid : would rather fake it than summon it up . |
| 3 | The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth . |
| 4 | v. Laughton where , it will be remembered , the I.T.F. union , in dispute with Merkur Island , a flag of convenience shipowner , induced tug-boat crews to refuse , in breach of their contracts of employment , to move Merkur Island 's vessel , thereby interfering with the charter of the vessel to Leif Hoegh . |
| 5 | As the weeks passed she became accustomed to seeing Luke already at his desk when she arrived , immaculately suited , his dark head , with that one dramatic streak of white hair , perfectly groomed , his long , square-tipped fingers idly toying with a gold fountain-pen as he frowned over his mail . |
| 6 | The prospect of a soldier ‘ literally dying with a redundancy notice in his hand is not a prospect that any decent MP should contemplate ’ . |
| 7 | Or , jokily bobbing with the jogger 's gait . |
| 8 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 9 | Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama . |
| 10 | The new town is literally blooming with the growth that foreign investment has brought . |
| 11 | The wind died and we lay out in midstream drifting with the current . |
| 12 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it seems that it has been the agricultural ministry which has won the debate , and Britain is merely tinkering with the problem . |
| 14 | Remove large debris and disperse the cells in the sucrose by gently stirring with the needle . |
| 15 | There 's also the opportunity to plan holidays , perhaps joining with a group of other people . |
| 16 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 the court had to consider circumstances which differed from those in the present case and in Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon in that a responsible official of the creditor bank took it upon himself to discharge any duty that might exist in the circumstances by personally dealing with the wife when she executed the documents under attack . |
| 17 | The black , wet face pressed to the glass of the vizor was constantly changing with the movement of the slime . |
| 18 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 19 | She was suddenly burning with the fire of a new task . |
| 20 | This wage was split into two parts : 58 per cent was a basic wage to cover everything , so bargaining with the deputy was virtually eliminated , and the remaining 42 per cent was a bonus on output . |
| 21 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 22 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 23 | He had found he had a good voice and was taking singing lessons , and he went on flirting with the piano and a trumpet he had bought between practising his flute . |
| 24 | From the planet 's surface you might think there is an eastward force , but there is n't , and if you were not rotating with the planet then this would be obvious . |
| 25 | The retention may also be used as a means of securing a vendor 's future obligations under the sale agreement or ancillary document such as not competing with the business or continuing to provide stocks and materials to the business . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , ’ she said softly , unconsciously toying with a beer-mat on the table . |
| 27 | He lurched off , already struggling with the seal . |
| 28 | I 'd rather planned on going to bed tonight aching with the satisfaction of revenge , not laughter . ’ |
| 29 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 30 | The future is not interfering with the past ; instead , it is fulfilling its obligations , as it were , by bringing about events that have already been reported . |