Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | From then on , every two years or so , they were to acquire more brothers and sisters : Elizabeth ; Mary , who died the year after her birth ; then Sarah or Susanna , baptised along with a new Mary in 1784 . |
2 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
3 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
4 | The pH levels can be adjusted manually with a commercial adjuster . |
5 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
6 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
7 | The BM7 intervened swiftly with a lengthy editorial , bringing the profession out strongly against eugenics . |
8 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
9 | Often three different types of roof — pyramid , hip , and gable — were included together with a wide variety of dormers in the upper storey . |
10 | Friends of the Earth criticized the lack of concrete suggestions , claiming that " the government has come along with a blank sheet of paper and asked the public to fill it in " . |
11 | The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents . |
12 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
13 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
14 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
15 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
16 | That might mean Lewis being fobbed off with a further promise of a title fight sometime in the next year or two , though he insists : ‘ I 'll fight this in the courts . |
17 | This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine . |
18 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
19 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
20 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
21 | The hotel is pleasantly decorated throughout with a smart new breakfast room and a lovely restaurant for dinner . |
22 | This can sometimes mean throwing away your own idea when your art director has come up with a better one — very hard on your ego but a necessary victory for good judgement . |
23 | The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time |
24 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
25 | So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) . |
26 | Land has come up with a credible answer in his Retinex theory of colour perception ( Land 1974 ) . |
27 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
28 | There are structural difficulties and the Council of Ministers has come up with a typical measure — just finding a few extra bob to see whether it will solve the problem . |
29 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
30 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |