Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between keeping up with opera , theatre , art exhibitions and all the other things that the upper middle classes go in for , my playtime was severely limited . |
| 2 | The 17% recently recommended by the Top Salaries Review Body to make a start towards catching up with inflation and moving towards parity with comparable jobs in the private sector was cut back to 4% . |
| 3 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 4 | But both the period of the ancien regime and the period of change in East Germany have revealed another German characteristic — that of going along with authority . |
| 5 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 6 | But Nutty believed him , and the consequences of the turn of events gradually came home to her , and her face , instead of lighting up with joy , dropped with dismay . |
| 7 | A good time for getting on with DIY or household repairs . |
| 8 | Adult inmates who absconded from the workhouse , were charged , on their recapture , with making off with clothing which was the property of the workhouse . |
| 9 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 10 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 11 | The bogus officers , who were dressed in full police uniform , tied the sixty year old up before making off with cash and jewellery . |
| 12 | A batch of film had gone for processing along with footprint casts and soil samples believed to be contaminated with blood or other tissue . |
| 13 | Was Costello simply upping his profile as a serious performer by hanging out with egghead musicians whose forte is Shostakovich rather than Chuck Berry ? |
| 14 | Swings often start by touching down with drift in a cross wind and it is worth remembering that , from the point of view of avoiding a bad swing into wind , it is better to overdo the drift correction . |
| 15 | Items like manhole covers and stopcock covers may need raising by building up with brickwork |
| 16 | With a fine eye for a ‘ newsworthy ’ item , the News of the World ( 28 August 1898 ) blamed youths for wasting water by larking about with street taps , but the socialist press saw a more permanent difficulty in the negligence of the private water companies . |