Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 5 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 6 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 7 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 8 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 9 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ On whether you came on with the aggressive line you 're using now . ’ |
| 16 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 17 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
| 18 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 19 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 20 | The Senior Medical Officer came in with the Thoracic Registrar . |
| 21 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 22 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 23 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 24 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 25 | Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern . |
| 26 | ‘ In 189 of the 211 word pairs tested in the simulation experiment , the model came up with the correct parse , in the sense that no other word was more active than either of the two words that had been presented . |
| 27 | TRAVEL agent Jacqui Ferguson came up with the right solution to land herself a dream trip round the world . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 29 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 30 | The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal . |