Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 2 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 3 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 4 | The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture . |
| 5 | Fraser , impatient at so inactive a role , persuaded the Regent to relieve him and appoint a replacement Deputy Warden , and now rode on with the main cavalry host . |
| 6 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 7 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 8 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 9 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 10 | The support of business could bring about a review of 16–19 education with the intention of integration of the pre-vocational and applied together with the academic curriculum . |
| 11 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 12 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 13 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 14 | Retired post office worker Trevor , 74 , said Garry was ‘ absolutely hysterical ’ when he phoned yesterday with the tragic news . |
| 15 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 16 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 17 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 18 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 19 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 20 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 21 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 22 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 23 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 24 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 25 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 26 | In any case , Fred Winterbotham first succeeded in charming the Nazis ' arch-ideologue Alfred Rosenberg and through him mingled attentively with the highest elements of the Party . |
| 27 | He jerked downwards with the powerful muscles of his shoulders . |
| 28 | Erlich helped out with the Little League team in Rome that played and practised at the American School on the Via Cassia most Saturday mornings . |
| 29 | But Adam ignored her , glancing round at Fand , who approached now with the other Women . |
| 30 | Kitson , Crick and Clarke were all talented individuals who disagreed strongly with the prevailing establishment views in their field . |