Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] with an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 4 | Loving her with his hands and his mouth , disrobing her with an erotic skill that brought her flesh to fire , he discarded his own clothes with an economy of movement , revealing his body to her in all the beauty of its prime , before embarking on a journey of initiation which had her sobbing his name . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Obviously , I could make better use of the space by replacing them with an 8 x 12ft monster , but that was too expensive £500 , or more … and I certainly did n't have that much going spare . |
| 7 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 8 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 9 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 10 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 11 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 12 | It defined Spanish patriotism , endowing it with an enduring myth . |
| 13 | The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack . |
| 14 | Fixing me with an indignant eye , he scuttled off to the peonies . |
| 15 | The mountain before them was the birthplace of mankind ; and he referred the ladies , while excusing himself with an ingratiating laugh for mentioning an indelicate subject , to the authority of Our Saviour 's words to Nicodemus , where it is stated that a man can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born once more . |
| 16 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 17 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear that you have worked in Africa , ’ said Daisy , fixing him with an accusing stare . |
| 19 | The amendment also increased Moslem and Druse representation in the Assembly , providing them with an equal share of seats after almost 50 years of Christian domination . |
| 20 | enhance pupils ' motivation and self-esteem by providing them with an achievable goal ; |
| 21 | ‘ We will also develop conversion methods for our clients , and the Pick and Pick look-alike market , providing them with an open alternative , ’ Salmon said , believing that with Apscore 's help , customers will be able to port code and data from Pick to Unix in a matter of days . |
| 22 | The Louts had also had enough , enough of Herr Hocher , that is , and were on their scooters , revving them with an ear-splitting racket . |
| 23 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 24 | Thanks for providing me with an excellent article for the summer edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean you 're grateful to her for sending someone with an ulterior motive ? ’ |
| 26 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 27 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 28 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 29 | These difficulties could be overcome by using finely ground copper carbonate rather than metal , and mixing it with an organic glue . |
| 30 | Much to the disappointment of the Board , surveys conducted in 1940 produced negative results : typical of them was the meticulous investigation , in late 1940 , of a group of 1,119 London County Council children evacuated to rural areas ; comparing them with an equivalent group of London children in 1938 , the study concluded that ‘ a period of evacuation of several months did not cause any significant difference in the rate of growth of evacuated children ’ . |