Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 2 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 3 | However , after a TOP Timeout , they came up with a real solution . |
| 4 | They came up with a mock chat show programme in which Williams was being interviewed by Clement Freud , as lugubrious-looking then as now . |
| 5 | Predictably , they came up with a plot-line set in the professional reaches of the law , rather than in the more ‘ artisan ’ area of policing . |
| 6 | They came up with a visionary scheme to raise money for musical equipment . |
| 7 | They came up with a taxonomic hierarchy : phyla , class , order , sub-orders , genus ( or genera ) and species . |
| 8 | But , kicking against the strong wind , the Oak defended well to keep the deficit to 1–0 and they came back with a strong display in the second half . |
| 9 | Yeah but what they do , they 've got all the artwork , so all they do is they go over with a black pen on the artwork . |
| 10 | I do n't care if they go out with a different girl every day of the week as well as me , but suddenly they want to be the one and only . ’ |
| 11 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 12 | They regularly assert that the significance of an observed action is symbolic ( rather than functional ) and they start off with a basic assumption that emotions and attitudes are just as much observable characteristics as colours or structures . |
| 13 | When this is the case the churches can ask to provide their material to add to the pack , and then ensure that they follow up with a personal call . |
| 14 | They rounded off with a scabby diatribe |
| 15 | But we would probably sell them the name if they come up with a reasonable offer . ’ |
| 16 | Let's talk about horse racing , but before we do so , one last question about football pools and that is that some people have systems — they come up with a whole range of numbers and combinations of things — does that make any sense at all ? |
| 17 | ‘ I definitely wo n't be playing for Rovers on Sunday unless they come up with a satisfactory offer and there 's no chance of that . ’ |
| 18 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 19 | Being as they were n't too clever themselves , they ended up with a dull kid . |
| 20 | Ravara Pipe Band was the only Ulster band competing in Grade 2 and they ended up with a commendable third place . |