Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 2 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 3 | She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 4 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 5 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 6 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 7 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |
| 8 | Here they fought bitterly with Jewish forces for control of the Jerusalem area , which had been allocated to neither side under the Partition Plan . |
| 9 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 10 | The Troop Staff Sergeant detailed to supervise the construction was insistently calling the rafts into the head of the bridge , where they coupled on with remarkable rapidity . |
| 11 | It was the mixed blood he did n't like , the native Irish in Francis that lived uneasily with all that dour Scots ancestry . |
| 12 | Stockings were rolled ; nightdresses folded and piled , sachets between each ; camisoles threaded anew with narrow ribbon after every washing all glimmered secretly in a deep drawer . |
| 13 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 14 | PASS & Co. carry out without cost or obligation a detailed survey for TIMBER INFESTATION and RISING DAMP ; a comprehensive report coupled together with estimated cost of eradication will be sent , in most cases , within 24 hours of notification . |
| 15 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |
| 16 | It , it worked out , my mum at first thought it were n't too bad cos she got in with one of these special offer things . |
| 17 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 18 | The external walls of the flues are constructed from a particularly porous earthen material , in places pierced transversely with tiny galleries that end very close to the outer surface so gases can easily diffuse through them . |
| 19 | She was drinking a coffee made entirely with warm milk . |
| 20 | The ‘ soft ’ tradition is , apparently , concerned to ‘ treat people as people , and [ is ] concerned less with law-making and more with speculative exploration ’ . |
| 21 | In the course of their many arguments , Amanda once asked him to consider the domestic condition of the Fergusson family , who lived together with strong bonds of affection , and declare whether they too were the consequence of chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 22 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 23 | At the start of the summer , Helen Storey got together with American second-hand clothing specialists Flip for her 2nd Line collection . |
| 24 | After all , what sort of threat was a group of film people who got together with interested artists , writers and sculptors on Sunday evenings to screen foreign films ? |
| 25 | In the opening scenes of The Quatermass Experiment stock film library footage is used of a V2 rocket blasting off , coupled in with sub-orbital shots of the Earth 's surface as seen from the stratosphere . |
| 26 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 27 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 28 | He would be about 16 years old then but his sources of pleasure changed little with advancing years though his opportunities became less … . |
| 29 | ‘ Next question , ’ she moved on with wan humour . |
| 30 | Mr Castro dabbled incompetently with communist economics , but had no economic ideas at all . |