Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 2 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 3 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 4 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 5 | Reagan had tried to meet the families once or twice , the first time in a school library in Chicago Heights ; the relatives furiously demanded help from him , boxing him in with a semi-circle of school chairs . |
| 6 | She would stand at her window in the summer twilights and feel the tug inside her as if something were straining to get out , urging her on with the kind of excitement she longed for and shrank from all at once . |
| 7 | Rounding it off with a cocktail , we finish our meal and sit there doggedly describing it to the waiter , with the menus there to jog our memory . |
| 8 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 9 | Nature had simply seen fit to bestow on her a tall , long-legged and generously curvaceous frame , topping it off with a face that could easily grace any magazine cover , with its high cheekbones , slanting tawny-coloured eyes and full provocative mouth . |
| 10 | The next day , place the black fondant tiles all over the roof , in neat overlapping rows , securing them on with a little water or royal icing . |
| 11 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 12 | Slowly , she revolved it , before pulling it out with a plop . |
| 13 | William George Henry Augustus , Eleventh Marquis of Hulton , always had a pipe in his mouth and he was invariably either filling it , cleaning it out with a metal reaming tool or trying to light it . |
| 14 | An essential piece of equipment is a long spirit level which you use to ensure that your frame is horizontal — do not rely on lining it up with the floor or ceiling of the room . |
| 15 | This means lining it up with the features on the ground . |
| 16 | Look for any spots of etch-resist which are unwanted : these can be removed by wiping them off with a cotton bud dipped in acetone ( nail varnish remover ) . |
| 17 | These can be removed simply by wiping them off with a damp cloth . |
| 18 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 19 | I cut 2½ × 2in rectangular holes in the end pieces for the air intake , framing them up with the waste from ripping the 1x3in . |
| 20 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 21 | He pushed her down beneath him finally , holding her down with a hand around her throat . |
| 22 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 23 | ‘ I recognized her when her wig fell off , ’ my abductor said , holding it up with the scarf . |
| 24 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 25 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 26 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 27 | Another devoted woman missionary , Phoebe England , did the professional training , while a third noble woman continued touring the other villages and linking them up with the training village . |
| 28 | There 's no danger of mixing you up with the mystery man from Pepe 's . ’ |
| 29 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 30 | Stiffly , she spun on her heel and began to march away , but Roman caught her arm , hauling her back with an insulting lack of effort . |