Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] with a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 2 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 3 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 4 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |
| 6 | ROS : You march in here without so much as a by your leave and expect me to take very lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated |
| 7 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 8 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 9 | Actually , the BMC does n't know all the details yet and it 's highly probable you 'll have to come up with a bit of cash yourself , but if you 're keen call Roger Payne on . |
| 10 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 11 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 12 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 13 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 14 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 15 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 16 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 17 | I waited for Mr Vulcan to come out with a group of our ever-curious neighbours . |
| 18 | If the Druidic Priest is quick to come back with a reply of ‘ Your Master has given me permission to enter ’ or something equally convincing , the door will say , ‘ Oh , all right . |
| 19 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 20 | Dogs , on the other hand , have to put up with a range of 1 dioptre all their lives . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 22 | At football matches or at confrontations at seaside resorts the police have to put up with a lot of abuse . |
| 23 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 24 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 25 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 26 | I do n't expect them to leave here with a catalogue of stories about what a terrible place Whitely is . |
| 27 | Loose props tended to fall out with a movement of the window , so I devised a fixed prop using a crab clamp and a small batten . |
| 28 | Naomi would have been returning again , I 'm sure , to start off with a sense of excitement , she was going back home ! |
| 29 | ‘ Come on Eddie , it 's hardly fair to expect a fifteen-year-old to give up her Saturday , especially one like today , to sit around with a bunch of old fogeys . |
| 30 | He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced . |