Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [adv prt] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those leaving , we believe we have offered good separation terms , and we have , in many cases , been able to back them up with independent , professional job-counselling . |
| 2 | She 'd invented schools for children , on the basis that since reading and writing were quite difficult it was best to get them over with early . |
| 3 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 4 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 5 | Such a policy makes sense only if the administration really is prepared to carry out its threats , and even to follow them up with worse . |