Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 3 | He kicked his st'lyan into a trot and rode to catch up with Kiku . |
| 4 | He tried different approaches : he tried going out with John ; talking with him ; sitting with him ; even designing a game for him based on football which the student knew interested John . |
| 5 | Anne still met John Redmond occasionally , and tried to keep up with world affairs so that she could hold her own when talking to him . |
| 6 | ‘ The farmers probably tried to get on with farming and making a living while all the fighting was going on , ’ said Hilary Wade . |
| 7 | Nu commented , ‘ The public got fed up with Communists ’ rowdyism. … press and public do not take the incident seriously' ; however , five days later all public services in Rangoon came to a standstill at AFPFL behest and most shops and bazaars were closed . |
| 8 | He does not see himself as having sold out ; he says he got fed up with magazine editors wanting throwaway images . |
| 9 | ‘ I got fed up with people offering to buy me out so they could open another damn casino , ’ Aggie says . |
| 10 | And so well I did n't like what he was doing but at any rate it happened on Sunday morning er , somebody read the lesson and it was Saint , Saint John and there were chapters and of course it was skipping about the verses all over the place , you just got fed up with verses . |
| 11 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 12 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |
| 13 | I said , anyway I said , I thought you 'd fallen out with Mandy . |
| 14 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 15 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 16 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , three of the Duke 's boobies from Blair Castle came riding up with bits of paper — some rubbish about the Act . |
| 18 | For years and years , her frailer beauty had made him feel physically famished for her , but he had generally subdued the longing because she seemed worn out with housework . |
| 19 | She gazed at Ruth , and her face seemed to fill up with horror . |
| 20 | But yesterday as she prepared to jet off with contest organiser Julia Morley for the three-day visit she said she was very excited . |
| 21 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 22 | Simply left a note to say she 'd gone off with Thomas . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've learnt to live with people , learnt to get on with people . |
| 24 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 25 | And then , a few minutes later , Nick came bursting in with Mister Johnny behind him and there was no time to say anything . |
| 26 | The government agreed to press on with devolution , and also to advance direct elections to the European Parliament , to which Labour had been hostile , while the Local Authority Works Bill , perhaps Labour 's last instalment of socialism , was watered down . |
| 27 | Though there was consensus among most delegates that production cuts were needed to avoid an oil glut which would weaken prices as demand dipped in the spring , the discussions became bogged down with claims by Kuwait for special treatment . |
| 28 | After spending a day settling in to their hotel rooms and enjoying a display by the Orange County Police Department , the children began to bubble over with excitement at the thought of visiting Disney 's Magic Kingdom . |
| 29 | As the Colonel began to swell up with rage , Pooley caught Milton 's eye and shot him a warning glance . |
| 30 | At the beginning of filming , the physical exertions began to catch up with Crawford , who needed injections in his left leg , which was hurting furiously . |