Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winona Ryder is the reluctant member of the elite ‘ Heathers ’ crowd who becomes an unwitting murderess after hooking up with the new boy at school , rough diamond Christian Slater — giving his best Jack Nicholson impersonation . |
| 2 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 3 | Clearly , unless these features are defined with precision , there is a danger of ending up with a tautological explanation : what is recent must also be novel because it is recent . |
| 4 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 5 | of getting on with the five years plans they 've put too much effort into producing war machines ! |
| 6 | Okosan Securities , one of Japan 's 10 largest securities companies , has declared that it is considering tying up with a London-based company to take advantage of its knowledge and expertise in the specialised area of offshore investment . |
| 7 | Management gurus have done their best , picking over the bones of ‘ world-class ’ firms in the hope of coming up with the Magic Formula . |
| 8 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 9 | Avoid bouncing up and down because an élite performer will simply wait until you are moving upwards before driving in with a strong attack . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps there is n't all that much fun in going around with a married bloke , after all ? ’ |
| 11 | There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 12 | OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned . |
| 13 | The EC dragged its feet before coming up with a reluctant and minimal proposal to reform farm trade . |
| 14 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 15 | DEAN RICHARDS and Martin Bayfield both gave England team manager Geoff Cooke a scare before joining up with the Grand Slam squad . |
| 16 | In no way do they have a mandate to wipe out a whole stock and possibly a whole species simply for their convenience in carrying on with an unsophisticated fishing method . ’ |
| 17 | Sergeant Bramble was so engrossed in mouthing along with the Daily Express that he did not notice the opening of the door . |
| 18 | When Mrs Jones says : ‘ My Johnny is really a good boy but got to running around with the wrong bunch and got into trouble ’ , she is making a set of assumptions which , when spelled out more explicitly , constitute the foundations of an important school of thought in the scientific study of juvenile delinquency . |
| 19 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 20 | Obviously he 'd decided it was worth putting up with the foul-smelling smoke for the sake of picking Michael 's experienced brain . |
| 21 | The correct angle at which to set the drill is achieved by lining up with a sliding bevel set on the bench beside the drill . |
| 22 | There was a time , I think , in the late sixties , when erm the education service did itself very little good by going along with the general mythology that you had only to put more money into the schools to service , to solve all social problems . |
| 23 | The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget . |
| 24 | IBM Corp is tipped to attempt to rein back Hewlett-Packard Co 's surging high-end business by coming out with a new top-end model of the RS/6000 in the next couple of weeks . |
| 25 | Tatung Science & Technology Inc has responded to Sun Microsystems Sparcstation 10 announcements by coming out with the Super Compstation 10 Series , a line of seven MBus-based workstations . |
| 26 | Tatung Science & Technology Inc has responded to Sun Microsystems Sparcstation 10 announcements by coming out with the Super Compstation 10 Series , a line of seven MBus-based workstations . |
| 27 | By poking about with a dissecting needle it was obvious that these little threads were very strong , exactly how strong it was difficult to say ( Plate 12 ) . |