Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
| 2 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 3 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 4 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 5 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 6 | METHODS of dealing with failure differ around the world . |
| 7 | This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel . |
| 8 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 9 | They turned again on to an even narrower track , its tarmac pitted and holed , with grass growing down the centre of it . |
| 10 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 11 | Alternatively , they can be moving away from each other , with gravity slowing down the velocity of the recession . |
| 12 | It is generally done in a vertical packed bed reactor , in which water is passed down the column , with air passing up the column . |
| 13 | Moreover , on the academic front , the detailed empirical study of electoral behaviour through sample surveys has come into its own so that we now have a great deal more information on which to explore the hopes and fears of those who took sides on the issue of democracy at the same time as we are provided with information to check out the reality of key elements of the responsible party model in Britain . |
| 14 | One by one they climbed in , Delaney first , Nell in the middle , with Andrevitch bringing up the rear . |
| 15 | The deed authorises the bank to appoint a receiver and manager of the company 's undertaking , with power to carry on the company 's business . |
| 16 | The roofs are covered with lime to bring in the birds , but the birds are intelligent : they know when there is nothing to feed them . |