Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 2 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |
| 3 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 4 | He had a brief memory of McAllister 's bright face , earlier that day , and the thought of enjoying himself with one of Madame Rachel 's girls did not attract . |
| 5 | Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather . |
| 6 | England lost all three of their Tests and West Indies won two of theirs , but neither side liked the arrangement of interspersing them with one-day games that were part of the new Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 7 | He has a great advantage , for seldom need anything be done to alter its physical features : it is merely a question of dressing it with suitable plants . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're in the process of replacing them with beta-carotene and the packaging will be changed to indicate that . ’ |
| 9 | With some wild , unplanned , unfocused idea of shaming him with feminine helplessness , she stayed mute as he drew her into his arms , and remained passive as he gathered her up to him . |
| 10 | With government provision , the good or service may be free or subsidized , so that the amount paid by the consumer will understate the true cost ( higher taxes , etc. ) of providing him with that good or service , thereby encouraging excessive consumption of the item . |
| 11 | The therapist encouraged Pamela to make a list of ways in which she would like her parents to change in terms of providing her with greater freedom . |
| 12 | Whatever the size of land or terrace you have at your disposal , a little lateral thinking will prove that there are always ways and means of providing yourself with enough plant material to experiment with the very enjoyable pastime of pressing flowers . |
| 13 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 14 | Saatchi people always know the value of mixing it with major international players . |
| 15 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 16 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 17 | I started playing about with it and later felt a real satisfaction of doing something with that girl 's head of hair that no-one had wanted to touch . |
| 18 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 19 | There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it . |
| 20 | Now the National Gallery , London , is borrowing the picture , minus the rest of the exhibition , but with the intention of comparing it with other works by Leonardo in their collection . |
| 21 | We have pleased to reserve this hearing until we had had an opportunity of acquainting ourselves with all the circumstances . ’ |
| 22 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 23 | And when the satin had been recovered and she had found — after a painful , dry-mouthed fortnight of dosing herself with cheap gin and jumping down the cellar steps whenever Odette was not looking — that she was , miraculously , not pregnant , she had believed her luck to be on the turn . |
| 24 | Clarissa was horrified lest Charles thought of identifying himself with such a call . |
| 25 | And in that case the only way of identifying them with any accuracy is to hear them spoken and to witness the non-verbal behaviour with which they are preceded , accompanied or followed . |
| 26 | As we have seen , although positivist criminologists were often shy of associating themselves with specific corrective programmes , they saw crime as pathological and shared a general consensus in favour of a broadly rehabilitative approach to ridding ourselves of it . |
| 27 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 28 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 29 | A window box is more than capable of supplying you with some of the flowers you may want to press , and you can buy other flowers from a florist to supplement what you grow yourself . |
| 30 | Neither have we overlooked the youngsters — in fact we have created the ‘ Acorn Club ’ for the sole purpose of entertaining them with exciting excursions and activities while you relax elsewhere . |