Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 2 | Then , after dealing with the Grand Slam Cup and explaining how he only went along with the idea after insisting that the event would also produce $2m for the development of the game in ‘ third world tennis countries , he went on : |
| 3 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 4 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 5 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 6 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 7 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 8 | He was able to continue , but eventually came in with an oil leak and a loose tail pipe . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Computer Corp unit duly came out with a new , cheaper Sparcstation IPC last week , offering a colour system for under $6,000 — £5,000 in the UK — for the first time . |
| 10 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 11 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 12 | They just got on with the job . |
| 13 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 14 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 15 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 16 | We were too hot to take a cab , so we just sauntered along with the crowds . |
| 17 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 18 | She rustled around and finally came out with a crumpled bill which she put in my hand . |
| 19 | When he first advocated these ideas Hare largely went along with the view of most attitudinists that a correct account of the meaning of ethical language has no definite implications as to what moral views one should take . |
| 20 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 21 | When Alain 's mother finally went inside with a few rueful shakes of her head and a pleased look on her face , Jenna decided to risk all . |
| 22 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , Hastings Pier was packed on Friday for Splash ( rechristened by one DJ present as ‘ the all-England gurning contest ’ ) , Saturday 's country house alldayer near Bournemouth was generally acclaimed , while on Sunday night London 's Strut finally took off with a full turn-out for guest DJ Danny Rampling . |
| 24 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 25 | Pike just sat there with a toupee and tears all over his face , and we sat there staring at him . |
| 26 | ‘ I have brought you a brandy , ’ he added when she just sat there with the towel completely over her head . |
| 27 | Now in his sixties , he still rode out with the Black and Tans , as wild and fearless as ever . |
| 28 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 29 | The Lincolnshire fitters quickly crashed out with an even worse time . |
| 30 | These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex . |