Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity . |
| 2 | The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease . |
| 3 | We are still eager to bestow riches beyond belief , each month , upon the author of a letter which we deem either brimming with astute observations or glowing with sharp wit . |
| 4 | Nausea of vomiting or retching with great anxiety . |
| 5 | Non-washable papers just need brushing down or rubbing with stale bread or a soft rubber . |
| 6 | The clinical effects are slight , and in the resting cat are limited to a chronic mild cough ; following exercise or handling , there may be coughing and sneezing with slight dyspnoea and production of mucoid sputum . |
| 7 | Stroud , Gloucestershire-based Top Level Computing Ltd is offering MS-DOS and Windows users upgrades to its Complete Works or Fine Words packages , for £130 and £90 respectively : Complete Works combines a word processor , spreadsheet , database and charting with new form design and filling facilities ; the company reckons that the deal will be popular with users of its previous Microsoft Works package and with MS-DOS , Wordstar Express , Locoscript and Supercalc users wanting an upgrade path to Windows . |
| 8 | Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs . |
| 9 | Moving house and experimenting with new furnishing styles is a challenging and exciting experience . |
| 10 | She watched each gesture , scoring on her memory the slight frown , the pursing of his lips , and noticing with irreverent shock , for the first time , that his chin was rounded and weak . |
| 11 | They were all hearteningly well preserved and twinkling with renewed well-being , and none more so than Jim , 87 , and Mary , 91 , who met in an old people 's home and scandalised the staff by taking naps on the same bed , before deciding to make honest pensioners of each other . |
| 12 | Among other things , I 'm going to have you charged with trespassing and interfering with private property . ’ |
| 13 | Stop that mid-day shine by blotting your face with a tissue and dusting with translucent powder . |
| 14 | When England threatened to produce the magic that dazzled Scotland the back row stood defiant to a man , covering and tackling with fanatical commitment and dedication . |
| 15 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 16 | He 's charged with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to stop and report an accident and driving with excess alcohol . |
| 17 | The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works . |
| 18 | She had some mental stocktaking to do , she told herself sternly , tentatively tracing the lines of her body with her hands , and shivering with renewed disbelief at the remembered sensations , the utter , unexpected bliss of Roman 's lovemaking . |
| 19 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 20 | ROGER STOTT , one of Labour 's Northern Ireland spokesmen , was sipping a nightcap in a Belfast hotel recently and listening with genuine appreciation to a guitarist , when someone started taking flashlight snaps . |
| 21 | Or mechanical extractor ventilation capable of providing at least three air changes per hour and operating with 15-minute overrun after activation . |
| 22 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 23 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 24 | ‘ An increasing number of foreign criminal groups are moving to Germany and acting with unprecedented violence , ’ Herr Wolfgang Schauble , until recently Interior Minister , warned . |
| 25 | Moving over the snow , he was like a bird in flight , twisting and turning with total ease , at one with the elements . |
| 26 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 27 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 28 | Sometimes the machine would boom along , growing and expanding with heroic speed ; then strangely it would halt and slump . |
| 29 | Going through the chart room curtains , half enveloped by them , was a shape — the back of a man ? — something , just disappearing from view , and moving with incredible speed . |
| 30 | ‘ Be aware ’ does of course recommend a sensibility open rather than closed to new impressions , but even the most greedy for new experience can not embrace joy and suffering with equal fervour , there is always a bias in favour of the enjoyable . |