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 only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To put the icing on the cake , Newsboy — that 's Charles Fawcus ( left ) — weighed in with a 29-1 double yesterday through Jdaayel and Our Rita ( 5-1 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Isay staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple and gore clinging to his staff . |
| 19 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 20 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 21 | If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 23 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 24 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 25 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |