Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He left it all to me to sort out with the planning department and I had to plead that we 'd lose him altogether if we made a problem . ’ |
| 2 | Only when we get to the seventh paragraph of the story do we hear Benn 's statement to the court , which claims that the PC said : ‘ You black bastard , this will teach you to mess about with the police . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 4 | He 'll be expecting me to ride in with the cavalry . |
| 5 | At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away . |
| 6 | I do n't want her to end up with the sort of empty life I 've got to look forward to . |
| 7 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 8 | Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing . |
| 9 | ‘ When we were approached on this deal we used it to tie in with the release of one of our hostages held in Lebanon . ’ |
| 10 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 11 | The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses . |
| 12 | It was time for us to get on with the climbing . |