Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let Nat have my dogs and sit in with Tony . |
| 2 | A hawk had swooped low over the field of play , picked up the ball in its claws and flown off with it . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ Erika snapped her fingers and caught up with Karl . |
| 4 | The Wise Woman would grit her teeth and get on with it , Eve told herself . |
| 5 | Co-operating with Elena had its rewards and falling out with her could be catastrophic . |
| 6 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 7 | Often there 's a lot of , that people erm do or do n't do that you , you ca n't erm go along with when people are wanting terminations of pregnancy or , or they 're thinking of leaving their husbands and going off with somebody else then you just have to listen to what they say and put the facts as you see them in front of them . |
| 8 | The hoof sounds came nearer , irregular now as the two horses galloped together , rearing their heads and kicking out with their hind legs . |
| 9 | As the teacher looked , Belle opened her eyes and sat up with a radiant smile . |
| 10 | Blackbirds hopped — and paused , heads to one side , then cocked their tails and took off with much commotion to sing full-throatedly from the treetops . |
| 11 | risking their lives and coming back with the whole lot that he collected and brought back again . |
| 12 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 13 | Many waverers must have reached for their chequebooks and signed on with a green campaign organization after hearing the latest pronouncement assuring them that there really was something to worry about . |
| 14 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 15 | ‘ If you let people use their abilities , they will normally walk their way around their difficulties and come up with a straightforward solution , ’ says Neil . |
| 16 | In other words , many executives in firms experiencing economic difficulties and who know from experience that the inspectorate mainly imposes administrative sanctions will calculate that their best interests lie in not conforming to factory health , safety , and welfare regulations ; instead they will gather their excuses and get on with the violations . |
| 17 | And the man of God told her to go out and talk to her neighbours and come back with as many empty jars as she could borrow . |
| 18 | Derby 's Mark Pembridge , Andy Melville of Oxford and Portsmouth 's Kit Symons came safely through their games and joined up with the squad last night . |
| 19 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 20 | Except for that last year , when the blurred skelter of images would n't stay in their frames and played about with a kaleidoscopic frenzy . |
| 21 | It covered the whole of her face , shaping to its contours and jutting out with an exaggerated jawline . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're not prima donnas and [ they ] simply roll up their sleeves and get on with the work , ’ says one admiring Du Pont veteran . |
| 23 | It takes Tuscon : Green On Red go back to their roots GREEN ON RED : Too Much Fun DAN ‘ N ’ CHUCK head back to Tuscan to find their roots and team up with guest co-producer and long-time band member JD Foster . |
| 24 | The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists . |
| 25 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 26 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 27 | Nikos shrugged his shoulders and went on with his writing . |
| 28 | Thomas shut his eyes and hung on with all his might . |
| 29 | The priest staggered to his feet and waddled off with an air of drunken disdain . |
| 30 | John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight . |