Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 32 | Re-covering perhaps , or re-painting to fit in with their new circumstances ? |
| 33 | Then they turned up with their little son , Daniel , to introduce him to me . |
| 34 | Identical twins growing up with their own image constantly near them , sometimes very in tune with what the other is thinking and feeling , may have a problem in their search for a marriage partner on several counts . |
| 35 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 36 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 37 | It can bring together polar opposites in a way that would never happen in London or LA , where musicians hang out with their own kind . |
| 38 | The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran . |
| 39 | KINGMAKER , recently returned from their first major US outing , load up with their current ‘ Armchair Anarchist ’ single and launch into their UK tour with a live assault visiting . |
| 40 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 41 | This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs . |
| 42 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 43 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 44 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
| 45 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 46 | But you have n't seen how all this ties in with their long-term aims . |
| 47 | ‘ There was little possibility of the school being able to provide such an area until British Gas stepped in with their generous offer . |
| 48 | And the horsemen came riding down with their horned helmets and their lances and William was running , screaming , towards the village , but it was always too far away . |
| 49 | She wondered who would buy this house , moving in with their everyday things , their everyday lives . |
| 50 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 51 | cuddled up with their subsequent ladies , |
| 52 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
| 53 | The hoof sounds came nearer , irregular now as the two horses galloped together , rearing their heads and kicking out with their hind legs . |
| 54 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 55 | The previous Labour Government started off with their normal irresponsible pledges which produced enormous inflation and catastrophic cuts to all public service capital programmes . |
| 56 | On the other hand it is not enough simply to say that Libyans were inconsistent because they could not change their ideas fast enough to keep up with their changing society . |
| 57 | Coming up with their best estimate . |
| 58 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 59 | But the stunning curves owe more to Nineties video techniques as top girl group Bananarama bounce back with their first single as a duo . |
| 60 | Rivals in Britain , Japan and Finland are now coming out with their own similar designs . |