Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law .
2 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
3 They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year .
4 It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer .
5 If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner .
6 Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be .
7 ‘ They might have helped out with the work , but Robert has done much more — lent you his nurse for that pyometra and lent Ian to do my farm work — and he 's worked doubly hard himself .
8 The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on
9 But they might have run round with the mop and a bit of beeswax .
10 The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal .
11 Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot .
12 If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella .
13 You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level .
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