Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If I 'm down or arguing with one of the family , because I 've been ratty through not being well , then Pat the physiotherapist , I have a talk with her and she talks to me and it helps me to talk to somebody else .
2 Non-washable papers just need brushing down or rubbing with stale bread or a soft rubber .
3 ‘ We just do n't want young people to be brought in and charged with this , ’ he said .
4 The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own .
5 I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals .
6 By Bronze Age times the ‘ green man ’ — Green Jack , or Hooded Robin , the medieval ‘ wodehouse ’ — had become a solitary forest figure , partially deified , reflected in and mingled with such elemental forms as Pan , and Dionysus , and vaguely remembered dryads .
7 Now I I think I would like to ask the county to come in and deal with this question of how much of their forty one thousand two hundred is new build and how much is gon na be taken up or provided by the conversion .
8 The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind .
9 The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld .
10 Louise just put your pen down and join with this please .
11 No. 16 , which because of the poor condition of its body , had already been re-pillared with five windows , was sent to Hendon in August or September 1928 , stripped right down and rebuilt with flush sides , two and one reversible cushioned seats inside and a number of other improvements .
12 Add black olives ( Nyons variety if you like them ) , just in time to warm through and sprinkle with chopped parsley .
13 I caught all through and finished with 7 lb 4oz but that was no match for Paul who took 9 lb 12 oz to the scales .
14 One side of his immaculate jacket was soaked through and spiked with broken glass .
15 Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) .
16 We would really like to see this thing over and done with one way or another , and to be able to put our case .
17 It was that very feeling that all was unlikely , that anything likely was over and done with like last year 's cricket match , which was most frightening .
18 He took two wickets in his first over and finished with five for 68 bowling at the end which offered encouraging lift .
19 I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice
20 Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days .
21 In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences .
22 ‘ … and you kept your mouth shut but you were beaten up and threatened with worse .
23 She had intensive physiotherapy treatment every day on a one-to-one basis , and gradually recovered her balance , so that she could stand up and walk with some help .
24 In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor .
25 The highest praise can be given to works which match up and accord with these .
26 Rather than tensing up and pulling with all your arm strength , simply use your weight to do the work for you by leaning on your arms with a straight back .
27 After lights-out we 'd all get up and play with this planchette thing .
28 Suzanne Garment writes in her recent book Scandal : ‘ The great American scandal machine that we have built for ourselves is up and running with ferocious momentum . ’
29 Neither was sure if one of us would be going home or if we 'd be split up and put with other hostages as had happened before with the Yanks and the Frenchmen .
30 A young reader with limited reading skill may be encouraged in his or her labour by finding the otherwise relentless block of print broken up and relieved with readily-understood pictures .
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