Example sentences of "and [v-ing] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well , Stan Bowes , thank you very much indeed for joining me this afternoon — Stan Bowes , head of marketing for Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board and helping with this look at the tourist industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Considerable work has also been undertaken to develop new blends using wool and experimenting with new man made fibres and dyestuffs . |
| 5 | Moving house and experimenting with new furnishing styles is a challenging and exciting experience . |
| 6 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Among other things , I 'm going to have you charged with trespassing and interfering with private property . ’ |
| 10 | Stop that mid-day shine by blotting your face with a tissue and dusting with translucent powder . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The way Albert was staring at her , dry and disbelieving with one eyebrow raised , was so maddening ! |
| 13 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He 's charged with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to stop and report an accident and driving with excess alcohol . |
| 16 | The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 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 | The two developments have emerged in parallel , developing separately , but inevitably influencing and interacting with each other . |
| 22 | With a group or a class responding and interacting with each other , the teacher 's skill in interpreting and reacting immediately are all-important . |
| 23 | Rooted in civil society and operating with some independence from inter-state relations , such institutions provided a potential check and counter-balance to the tendency towards anarchy inherent in a system of rival nation states . |
| 24 | Or mechanical extractor ventilation capable of providing at least three air changes per hour and operating with 15-minute overrun after activation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 28 | The French , he thought , were a different matter ; their envoy , de Craon , was already in Scotland , plotting and conspiring with that bitch of a widow-queen . |
| 29 | ‘ An increasing number of foreign criminal groups are moving to Germany and acting with unprecedented violence , ’ Herr Wolfgang Schauble , until recently Interior Minister , warned . |
| 30 | Moving over the snow , he was like a bird in flight , twisting and turning with total ease , at one with the elements . |