Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 2 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 3 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 6 | The therapist 's task is to be sensitive to these differences and work with the parents to devise strategies of change that fit in with their cultural viewpoint . |
| 7 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 8 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Our large corporate donors are unable to come up with their usual contributions . |
| 10 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 11 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 12 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 13 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 14 | These tend to pop out of the oblong types of pods and may not line up with their positive contacts properly . |
| 15 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 16 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 17 | Miss Sergeant , 26 , obtained an injunction to keep Redmond away from her and she moved out with their three children to stay with relatives , said Robert Atherton , prosecuting . |
| 18 | No wonder Inspector Blakelock was often so quiet ; that when the police officers came in with their hearty banter he answered only with that slow , gentle smile . |
| 19 | As we take apart the fight story , more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries . |
| 20 | On a bright and chilly Saturday in November , Napier Alumni Golfing Society teed off with their inaugural meeting , at Gullane Golf Club . |
| 21 | ‘ These people tend to take advantage of the trust they have built up with their official hat on . |
| 22 | It will ask why women put up with their subordinate position in society , or rather , examine the strength of the pressures which make it difficult for women to produce social change despite their continuing attempts to do so . |
| 23 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 24 | When they both protested , seemingly in vain , at having lines cut , they came up with their own solutions they would accept the cuts , but make do with them badly . |
| 25 | The children met up with their new foster parents , Bill and Janet Matthews . |
| 26 | Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . |
| 27 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 28 | The pace the pattern was set seconds later , as Oxford roared back with their first attack . |
| 29 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 30 | Unless Blakelock had the early-morning job of checking on Lab security — and this was yet another of the questions to be asked — he and Brenda Pridmore would probably have got on with their normal work at the reception desk . |