Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
2 | Commentators claimed that the UN would implement its threat of economic sanctions against the Khmers Rouges if they failed to comply with the deadline . |
3 | In those circumstances the plaintiffs were entitled to obtain possession of the premises unless they failed to comply with the terms of s.146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
4 | They were , however , guaranteed state immunity from any new charges after they agreed to co-operate with the government investigation . |
5 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
6 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
7 | In the book " Intonation , Accent and Rhythm " , A. Butler says in reporting an experiment that , " listeners tended to interpret what they heard to conform with the stress pattern , often in conflict with the segmental information . " |
8 | Babcock countered that the plant 's operators had all the information that they needed to cope with the crisis . |
9 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
10 | But at some point they decided to compete with the lending libraries in their own field . |
11 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
12 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
13 | In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof . |
14 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
15 | There they had to cope with an IMF adjustment programme which involved savage public spending cuts . |
16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
17 | Again they were helped by defensive indecision , this time between Coleman and Craig Short as they attempted to deal with a Seaman clearance . |
18 | Yet , referring to section 6(c) of the Act , the Court of Appeal held that , although not bound directly by the injunctions , the newspapers could be in contempt if , in publishing material derived from Peter Wright 's manuscript , they intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |