Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 2 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 3 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 4 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 5 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 6 | They also tied in with a felt ‘ horizontal ’ structure in the work . |
| 7 | They nearly ran off with a second too . |
| 8 | There were some heart-stopping moments in the Town goalmouth , but they survived and nearly ran off with a win . |
| 9 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 10 | A nympho barfly shacked up with a prizefighter — that 's not her scene . ’ |
| 11 | But I managed to give out some positive body language , and at least came through with a win . ’ |
| 12 | So Adam at least came back with a grain of comfort , though for the dead Harry , not the living . |
| 13 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 14 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 15 | Sheila puckered her brow with concentration , then looked up with a grin . |
| 16 | She turned and looked at him , then sat up with a gasp of dismay . |
| 17 | Mireille eventually met Rob Andrew , the Lions captain , and he too ended up with a bouquet , which he was still wondering how to dispose of as his players began to line up . |
| 18 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |