Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 4 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 7 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 8 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 9 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 10 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 11 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 12 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 13 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 14 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 15 | When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use . |
| 16 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 17 | While Northumberland was imprisoned in the Tower ( 1605–21 ) , Warner brought his books from Syon , and joined in with the learned discussions of the earl and his other mathematical and scientific clients — Thomas Harriot , Robert Hues , and Nathaniel Torporley [ qq.v . ] . |
| 18 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 19 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 20 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 21 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 22 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 23 | With time , however , ‘ the judges put away their learning and went along with the expressed needs of commerce … the conditional vendor 's right to be a chattel mortgagee , when it suited him , was almost everywhere acknowledged ’ . |
| 24 | However , they went along with the many changes in the hope that the increasing emphasis on training might help our young people to find jobs . |
| 25 | Back from Cuba , his belief in non-violence now a fading memory , he fell in with the dope-smoking radicals of the key young radical movement , Students for a Democratic Society . |
| 26 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 27 | T. Behrens kept up with the fleeing lovers , at intervals . |
| 28 | Soaps do n't usually focus on characters like this , people who grew up with the idealistic values of the 1960s and early 1970s , who have put off having children until their thirties , who worry about the environment but also worry about how they 're not managing to do enough about it . |
| 29 | She went out with the other milkmaids to the cows in the fields . |
| 30 | At first it was conjectured that Dorman-Smith had gone to London to obtain a new policy , but on 5 August it was announced that he had resigned ‘ for health reasons ’ and was to be succeeded by Major-General Sir Hubert Rance , whom Mountbatten had appointed in May 1945 to head his military administration after he fell out with the Civil Affairs officers who wanted to get rid of Aung San . |