Example sentences of "[v-ing] them with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching , stroking not her but the jewels — touching them with an awful tenderness . |
| 2 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | But it means , too , transforming these traditions , by imbuing them with the woman-centered values of nurturance and intimacy , as necessary and legitimate goals of political life . |
| 4 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Follies are in their way heroic , ’ William Feaver has commented on these grand narratives , aligning them with the epic paintings by the vainglorious diarist , Benjamin Robert Haydon . |
| 8 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 9 | He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water . |
| 10 | The muted notes which are found at the beginning of bar 7 should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position ( approx ) and then picking them with a gentle up-stroke using your r/hand index finger . |
| 11 | The palmier biscuits can be made up to two weeks in advance of the filling them with the whipped cream , as long as they are stored in an airtight tin . |
| 12 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 13 | ( viii ) Remove the coverslips from their chambers and transfer them into PBS containing 0.1 % Tween-20 ( PBS — Tween ) before incubating them with the specific antibodies or other reagents . |
| 14 | Francie knelt beside them , sheltering them with the dry-stone wall of his body . |
| 15 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 16 | 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 ‘ . |
| 17 | Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Trees reached down to Balor with their branches and spread him flat on the ground , unlashing the ground roots that had held him , replacing them with the strong , clutching roots of two of the largest Oaks . |
| 21 | Even replacing them with the identical brand and model can still leave you with a sense of loss or disappointment . |
| 22 | Of course he was at ease ; he could joke with his servants and turn away , dismissing them with a happy , ‘ Good to see you all , and very good to be home . ’ |
| 23 | When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 24 | When those who believe in war refuse to do their duty , that is , when they refuse to fight for some reason or other , Gandhi feels it to be his moral duty to enlighten them as to their responsibilities as soldiers , while at the same time presenting them with the alternative path of ahi sā . |
| 25 | Many modernisation theorists argued that industrialisation would open up opportunities for women , providing them with a greater variety of possible roles and increasing chances of social mobility and a less subservient existence . |
| 26 | For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base . |
| 27 | In September , NVQs at Level Three will be introduced for trainee managers , providing them with a recognised qualification at the end of their JS training , and plans for extension of the scheme to other staff are in hand . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've found , for instance , that we can keep the confidentiality of our client 's affairs intact by providing them with a complete in-house service , ’ Mr Cunningham said . |
| 29 | Teachers can help to develop the ideas of any child by providing them with a new range of experiences . |
| 30 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |