Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracey Cole , 18 , was found in her room at Oxford 's Lady Margaret Hall , after hanging herself with a dressing gown cord . |
| 2 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 3 | Young members of Prescot Swimming club gather round Stephen Orford , a member of the British Wheelchair basketball team , after presenting him with a cheque for £750 on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation . |
| 4 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 5 | Scar-faced Moore , 33 , dragged two-year-old Clare and David , four , from their mother 's arms after threatening her with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 6 | One evening , after threatening her with a knife , he raped and then stabbed her . |
| 7 | Hunter carved a hideous noughts and crosses pattern on Heidi 's naked bottom after strangling her with a belt . |
| 8 | TENDERISE tough meat by marinating it in any kind of citrus juice or by spooning juice over the meat after piercing it with a fork . |
| 9 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 10 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he was on the brink , she sensed , of surprising her with a confidence . |
| 13 | This must be done with the object of replacing them with a single rational religion compatible with human needs and unrelated to blind and futile faith in unproven ‘ gods ‘ . |
| 14 | A GIS is capable of identifying such slivers and allowing the user the choice of leaving them as they are or of replacing them with an average boundary position . |
| 15 | Supervised by Rover apprentices , the pupils ripped out an old lecture theatre and are in the process of replacing it with a multi-purpose room which , it is hoped , will help to bridge the gulf between industry and education . |
| 16 | I 've already telephoned the Consulate , ’ he added , in the hope of soothing her with a half-truth . |
| 17 | The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria ( CITUB ) and the Podkrepa ( " Support " ) Labour Confederation walked out of talks with the government on April 14 , accusing it of presenting them with a fait accompli over price liberalization . |
| 18 | If you have decided on this as your opening sequence , you may like the idea of beginning it with a fade in on a close-up of some brightly lit seasonal decoration in a shopping precinct — the face of a life-size Santa would be an ideal way to set the mood . |
| 19 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 20 | If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course . |
| 21 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 22 | I 'm quite weary of doing it with a , with a full set and everything it 's , it 's , it 's , awfully tiring for taking the system |
| 23 | Lynda always accepted the importance of having someone with a strong concept controlling the design outflow and never found Laura 's unspoken guidelines stultifying . |
| 24 | KEVIN Gallacher accused Norwich 's Chris Sutton of upending him with a professional foul and blasted : ‘ I 've seen people sent off for less . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 26 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 27 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |
| 28 | His chances of winning it with a reunited party and a substantial majority were good . |
| 29 | The chances of finding one with a positive clinical response rate of 20% or more is less than 1 in 40 000 . |
| 30 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |