Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with [art] [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 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 7 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 8 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Isay staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple and gore clinging to his staff . |
| 15 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 16 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 19 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | CCG staff on site helped out with a weekly briefing . |
| 30 | Although confined to a wheelchair for most of her life , Violet was active in church life and helped out with a local Brownie pack . |