Example sentences of "with [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests .
2 in 1937 , with threat of war with Germany moving ever closer , Stalin came up with inspired notion of purging the armed forces .
3 Beth looked forward to the birth of their child ; with Richard growing so fast , she missed that special feeling of holding a small warm being in her arms .
4 With Speed pushing right up and supporting the 2 forward … would enable him to make his runs into the box , also get on both flanks to cross , or get on the end of Wallace crosses …
5 With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment .
6 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
7 A recent Gallup Poll showed that 80pc of the public oppose foxhunting with 79pc objecting so firmly that they favour Parliament banning this cruelty .
8 With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room .
9 Currencies had a quiet day , with sterling closing just under half a pfennig lower at Dm2.3835 and a tenth of a cent down at $1.4330 .
10 At 8.30 on a weekday morning , with rain swirling spitefully down , the focal point of the joyride riots seems almost devoid of life .
11 Much the same happened in a general cultural sense , with Faroe becoming even more independent and determined to maintain its old customs .
12 With Kooy sounding rather more comfortable , is better sung .
13 Lead times have been dramatically reduced , with goods moving much more quickly through the factory , and quality efforts ensure that 96 per cent of products are now going out ‘ right first time ’ .
14 ‘ No , I would n't let you , you 'd say thank you very much , the fees are this price , and I 'd like a nice flat of my own with carpets going right up to the wall and no counting how much electric fire we use . ’
15 I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ?
16 The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson .
17 He would be seeing , I thought , an unremarkable young woman , rather too solemn , with thought-lines developing too fast between level dark brows ; dark-brown hair and grey eyes ; tolerable nose and mouth , and — my only real claims to beauty — a good figure and a fine , fair skin .
18 A spokesman for the AA Roadwatch unit said : ‘ There have been lots of shunts with people going too fast and being unable to handle their car .
19 On the other hand there was a divergence between staff judgements of need and the judgements of those discharged from their care , with staff opting more often for supported accommodation and the dischargees for independent living .
20 There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this , but with life revolving almost exclusively around young children the potential for later social isolation is obvious .
21 Certainly there was prize money , though modest enough by today 's standards , with France winning just under $200,000 for their efforts throughout the year .
22 Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot .
23 The start of the second half was a disaster for 'Mill , with Englefield equalising straight away .
24 the impact of the comet obliterated large portions of the Animal Kingdom , with mammals suffering just as severe depredations as the reptiles ( fishes and other marine animals probably came out of it all comparatively lightly )
25 But the big freeze suprised the weathermen with warnings coming as late as 4am to council depots .
26 With privatisation proceeding only slowly , the Treuhand decided in March to decant some of its work to outside agencies .
27 There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever .
28 However appropriate , we ca n't have our baby born with horses stamping all round . ’
29 I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem .
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