Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with [art] [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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
7 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
8 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
9 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
10 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
11 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
12 | The Trades Union Congress weighed in with a Green Charter , which included the right to hold ‘ green strikes ’ over issues like the importation of toxic wastes . |
13 | Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
16 | Isay staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple and gore clinging to his staff . |
17 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
18 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
19 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
20 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
21 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
22 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
23 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
24 | 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 . |
25 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
26 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
27 | The sound , in itself small , was magnified by the lofty roof , and startled him painfully , and he drew back with a bounding heart into the shadows of the triforium as a man stepped into the church . |
28 | When he decided he had finished he drew back with a reluctant groan , his eyes watchful , devoid of any feeling other than the insatiable one of sexual hunger . |
29 | Her hair was thin and fair and long , caught back with an elastic band , and her face was thin and long too , wizened and pinched . |
30 | CCG staff on site helped out with a weekly briefing . |