Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 2 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 3 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 4 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 5 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 6 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 7 | Pennethorne was called to explain his proposals , and in an appendix to the proceedings , Molesworth said that after considering Inman and Phipps 's report , he ‘ proposed to commence immediately with the Foreign Office ’ . |
| 8 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 9 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 10 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 11 | He 'd met up with a marvellous girl in Munster , anyway ; then a fully consenting Hausfrau from Hamburg … and so it had gone on . |
| 12 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 13 | I did n't hold any deep conversations with him ; he seemed to socialise mainly with the other young people — that American boy in particular . ’ |
| 14 | Mind , it was the surprise of me life to 'ear you 'd teamed up with a fly female pickpocket , I did n't know you was one of the lads . ’ |
| 15 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 16 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 17 | BRITAIN Rugby League international winger Martin Offiah prepared to return home with a serious shoulder injury yesterday , admitting that he was unlikely to play club rugby in Australia again . |
| 18 | BRITAIN Rugby League international winger Martin Offiah prepared to return home with a serious shoulder injury yesterday he admitting that he was unlikely to play club rugby in Australia again . |
| 19 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 20 | He seemed to have let out sufficient steam and resentment for the moment and turned to flirt obligingly with a middle-aged woman who touched his arm in pleased anticipation . |
| 21 | Well we the E E C started off with the water filtrations and air products and then they got tied up with an American outfit doing fuel savers , magnets for your car . |
| 22 | Conscientious objection rose markedly ; 40 of the 400-strong military contingent ordered to go out with the anti-aircraft missiles refused to do so . |
| 23 | He began to do so with a desperate vigour . |
| 24 | He began to cry fitfully with a keening sound . |
| 25 | He strode to the counter and began talking earnestly with a burly man dressed in white house-painter 's overalls . |
| 26 | Russia , for example , failed to keep up with the scientific and technological innovations of the West . |
| 27 | The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education , which represents staff in both sectors , last night rejected an improved offer for further education staff and decided to go ahead with a one-day strike tommorrow and to begin boycotts of marking and examination setting . |
| 28 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 29 | ‘ He began getting very rebellious and started hanging around with the wrong crowd , says Steven . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , I started going out with the Thai development workers , to visit villages and meet the people I would be working with for the next two years . |