Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a temple , folly or grotto has been long abandoned and the roof has collapsed , bringing down the ceiling with it , a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris . |
| 2 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 3 | Very recently , not so long ago , I saw on programme on India , in in one of the sweat-shops , you saw young children , boys and girls about twelve years old , on their hands and knees making matches , and a man walking down the centre with a stick . |
| 4 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 5 | cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd |
| 6 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 7 | Foods such as sugar , salt , spices , fat and alcohol can therefore aggravate a cellulite condition by cluttering up the system with additional waste matter that is poorly eliminated . |
| 8 | If you are careful and place all your subroutines at the end of the main program , you can display the main structure of the program without cluttering up the trace with the subroutines . |
| 9 | developed from Xerox research ( like just about everything else we take for granted in desktop publishing ) these are a method of providing user control over software without cluttering up the screen with text . |
| 10 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 11 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 12 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
| 13 | The T&L empire grew out of the merger in the 1920s of East End sugar refineries owned by Henry Tate and Abram Lyle , and expanded by fattening up the nation with calories . |
| 14 | ‘ How quick and how right you are ; we could deal very well together — you 'll find I am a generous lover , as long as you understand I 'm not walking up the aisle with you , or any other woman . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 16 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 17 | It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that . |
| 18 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 19 | They ricochet through the trees , slapping away the leaves with a little ticking sound : crack-fzzz-tchktchk . |
| 20 | Soon they would be filling in the space with houses again . |
| 21 | The situation can be seen either as successive waves of colonists from old established centres filling in the landscape with daughter settlements , or as a scatter of settlements , some of which develop while others remain unaltered . |
| 22 | He strode into the room and picking up the kettle with an old cloth he proceeded to make a pot of tea . |
| 23 | It is n't because I keep on going down and filling up the metro with ten pounds worth of petrol and I 'm not making a a trip back and forth to work every day . |
| 24 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 25 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 26 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 27 | Look , I know I have a reputation for serving up the truth with more than the traditional British accompaniments . |
| 28 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 29 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 30 | Helicopters shudder overhead , filling the sky with their ominous noise and , at night , picking out the residents with intense searchlights . |