Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] with " in BNC.

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1 Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story .
2 Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation .
3 Fellow worker Hazel Goff , who has St John 's Ambulance training , then administered first aid , cutting away Mr Chittenden 's burnt clothing and sponging him with water .
4 Jim ( no one who knows him calls him Iggy ) being Jim was squatting on the table stuffing everyone else 's venison into his roll and eating it with his fingers .
5 He said that he will be continuing with Mary 's work of dealing with residents ' worries and complaints — ‘ pointing them in the direction of the right person to help them ’ — and assisting them with official forms , etc .
6 And helping them with advice as well .
7 Margaret Flynn has enjoyed meeting electors , learning their views , and helping them with their problems .
8 Order Code : 9350 Total Disks : 1 This program is ideal for introducing children to computers and helping them with their spelling .
9 ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes .
10 It seems right to see Hubble 's greatness in recognising splendid opportunities and pursuing them with utmost devotion and superb vision .
11 He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted .
12 Watching him finding the food and preparing and cooking it with deft and practised skill , Julia marvelled at his practicality .
13 Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin .
14 Within minutes Hannah was alongside the aircraft examining it closely , and touching it with her fingertips , as if to make sure it was real .
15 The practical development reasons why communicators and educators can make a difference through communicating with women and empowering them with information and skills are outlined below .
16 The only sounds came from the other end of the room where the woman was splitting the artichokes and tossing them with a splash into a big plastic bowl .
17 15.38 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 7 should continue to participate extensively in widely varied group work in a range of groupings where they should now be encouraged to take on an increasingly responsible and , as appropriate , individual or independent role , eg by taking notes of the discussion and checking them with the group , representing group views in plenary sessions .
18 Preaching epistle to the apostles and anointing them with water ( still , not carbonated ) .
19 He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water .
20 Some hours later , out she went again , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle .
21 Next morning , when the glimmer in the skulls ' eyes had died away , she went off as before , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle .
22 It 's also done a publisher 's version of reverse engineering with Reed International Plc 's Cahners Publishing subsidiary , that will see Systems Integration Business folded and Reed taking on Digital News and blending it with its own Digital Review .
23 The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need .
24 They were especially critical of the assumption that one can explain a form of behaviour simply by observing its incidence and correlating it with other variables .
25 Direct offer advertisements ( eg newspaper advertisements inviting investors to apply for an investment by filling in a clip-out coupon and returning it with their cheque ) , may not be issued or approved in respect of futures or other derivatives or warrants .
26 Others are opportunists , killing anything they can catch and devouring it with relish .
27 Putting together some of the memories and matching them with photographs where possible , I have tried to give a flavour of life in Bishop 's Castle from the turn of the century to the 1920s .
28 I 'm sure it wo n't be long before she is on the most popular chat shows , telling us of commissions she has undertaken and regaling us with tales of her life when she was actress Delia Abraham , co-starring in the TV version of Nell Dunn 's Up The Junction , and appearing in rep alongside Kate O'Mara .
29 I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house .
30 Both Primary Education in English and the APU Language Performance in Schools ( Report I ) stress that in many areas ( spoken word , drama , individualised reading ) performance must be improved for ‘ language is our principal means of making sense of our experience and communicating it with others ’ .
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