Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose .
2 By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster .
3 One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’
4 The world will applaud , and rightly press on with the lifting of sanctions .
5 Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the .
6 The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered .
7 This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work .
8 But none of them had been interested enough to come up with an offer .
9 " We 'd better catch up with the others , had n't we ? " he said quickly , gesturing along the track .
10 Humorous memories of childhood long forgotten along with the appeal of a modern television character .
11 This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses .
12 In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet .
13 Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 .
14 The disorganized nature of catholic — nationalist politics was only turned round with the emergence of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the subsequent forming of the SDLP in 1970 .
15 We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed .
16 On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise .
17 This was all washed down with a bottle of red wine .
18 They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping .
19 The fact that your copy-writers are so uninformed on this perhaps links up with the lack of information the manufacturers have on the need for their product .
20 I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done .
21 Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself .
22 It is entirely tied up with the intensity of interest or desire which you apply to the various things you do .
23 Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart .
24 To the Idealists , man was essentially ‘ a social creature ’ and one very much bound up with the State .
25 The history of the use of herbs in food is naturally bound up with the history of food itself .
26 As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ .
27 How he could do so at all is something beyond our finite comprehension , and the full significance of the intersection of eternity with time in Jesus is only grasped along with the awareness that it is beyond our power to understand or explain .
28 Something of a spiritual vacuum prevailed following the discrediting of the orthodoxy hitherto imposed , and the values that had been so obviously tied up with the victor 's success and the material prosperity of the US seemed to be espoused with enthusiasm .
29 Only in the former case , where the plasma is in equilibrium , its particles randomly moving around with a distribution of energies , does the concept of ‘ temperature ’ have a true meaning and the possibility of sustained thermo -nuclear fusion exist .
30 During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace .
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