Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she 's selling , but nobody wants to carry on with the music.Debbie Kelly reports . |
| 2 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 3 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 4 | Some of the skinheads I 've met admit to having ‘ gone through ’ one or other of the parties of the extreme right , but , after a brief commitment , the enthusiasm tends to lapse along with the membership . |
| 5 | Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind . |
| 6 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 7 | In Taiwan , though , which likes to keep up with the West , there is a growing feeling that smoking should not be encouraged . |
| 8 | From here the way continues to join up with the car park at the Doagh road forest entrance . |
| 9 | European sales accounted for 25% of NCD 's revenues last year — the company expects that figure to rise to 40% this year as Europe begins to catch up with the US in its adoption of X-Windows-based technologies . |
| 10 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |