Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality manager Francine Galivel says the objective of the visit was fully achieved because everyone — the shift operator , the operator who loads the tanker , the person who plans the haulier 's despatch notes , the chemist who checks that the product meets specifications — all came back with a better understanding of how their jobs fit into the unbroken line from supplier to end product . |
| 2 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 3 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 4 | ‘ I see , ’ the Doctor went on with a harder edge in his voice , ‘ that you are the sort of hypocritical egomaniac who talks about betrayal when he 's condemning thousands of his own people in Haiti and millions in Africa and elsewhere to living the lives of mere insects ! ’ |
| 5 | She ran off with a younger film star . |
| 6 | He simply set off with no further glance at her , and Jenna seethed . |
| 7 | Evans is convinced it ended up with a better dealer than it started with , and has £2m of cash to play with . |
| 8 | At first I had the strings about an inch off the fingerboard , but I slowly started filing down the nut until I ended up with a lower action . |
| 9 | ‘ I use two amps on stage , switching between the two : a Marshall , which is set quite low but with a good , meaty kind of sound , and a reissue Fender blackface Twin Reverb set up with a cleaner sound and vibrato if I want it . |