Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 2 | Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces . |
| 3 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 4 | In July 1973 , after months of preliminary exchanges , a meeting of foreign ministers agreed to proceed with such talks which took place over the next two years . |
| 5 | Mr Mowatt agreed to proceed with this . |
| 6 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 7 | Why would she want to go with this man ? |
| 8 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
| 9 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 10 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 11 | He was rude today and I do n't want to sit with rude people and I 'm not going any more . ’ |
| 12 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 13 | With the South Koreans proving to be serious challengers , the Japanese obviously do not want to contend with another team for Asian supremacy . |
| 14 | Generally speaking , more positive attitudes to rated concepts of the deaf community tend to go with better skills , but these relations would not meet statistical criteria . |
| 15 | Remove handles , nameplate and door seal and carefully mask off all areas that you do not want to paint with overlapping sheets of newspaper . |
| 16 | It is intended to cope with irregular plurals ( " child " — " children " ) , other morphological variation which is too context dependent to be handled algorithmically ( " Hebrides ' = " Hebridear " ) , abbreviations ( " BBC " = " British Broadcasting Corporation " ) , words with alternative spellings ( " gaol " = " jail " ) and near synonyms ( " Great Britain " = " United Kingdom " = " Britain " = " UK " = " British Isles " ) . |
| 17 | Then , as the weeks went by , I got filled with this sense of pride . |
| 18 | As we noted , nominal predicates tend to agree with actual number and person , finite verbs with the morphological person and number encoded in the polite form of the pronoun , with language-specific decisions on predicates of intermediate kind . |
| 19 | ‘ I tend to work with up-and-coming guitar bands because that 's the music I like listening to and that 's what I understand better . |
| 20 | I mean , I mean I know I do n't really want to work with old age pensioners , but I start in a |
| 21 | Why do you want to work with this company ? |
| 22 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 23 | Fancy designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match . |
| 24 | Some have right-wing parties like Germany 's Republicans that stir racial hatred and exploit the tensions that tend to come with large-scale immigration . |
| 25 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 26 | Hurry up and put it on there I do n't want to stand with these forever . |
| 27 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 28 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 29 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 30 | Of course , for early EDI users , getting two computers , one 's own and one belonging to a trading partner , to talk to one another , was quite enough of a challenge , without worrying about other people you and your partners might want to communicate with some time in the future . |