Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] with the [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 11 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 12 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 13 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 14 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ On whether you came on with the aggressive line you 're using now . ’ |
| 23 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 24 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Senior Medical Officer came in with the Thoracic Registrar . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |