Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 2 | Saturday 's defeat of leaders Muckamore by Cregagh left Holywood with an excellent chance of catching up with the leaders , but on Sunday they conspired to lose all wickets for a mere when chasing Carrick 's total of 177 . |
| 3 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 4 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 5 | Their weight is an advantage , as they almost level themselves , needing only the minimum of tapping down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 6 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 7 | For them , it is more a question of getting on with the job . |
| 8 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 9 | of getting on with the five years plans they 've put too much effort into producing war machines ! |
| 10 | Management gurus have done their best , picking over the bones of ‘ world-class ’ firms in the hope of coming up with the Magic Formula . |
| 11 | Now that 's that 's just sort of coming out with the answer . |
| 12 | No , oh , I mean personally I think it would be better for the United Reformed to join up with the shared pastures instead of joining up with the Methodist because the Methodist have got plenty of churches in their area , have n't they ? |
| 13 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |