Example sentences of "with [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |
| 2 | In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group . |
| 3 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 4 | Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment . |
| 5 | With positive support from her colleagues , Lynda has been able to successfully combine a career with bringing up a family . |
| 6 | We have found it to be the ideal way of combining pursuit of a career in medicine with bringing up a family . |
| 7 | To that should be added a familiarity with the commonest ways of symbolising sounds ; a dictionary user faced with looking up a word whose spelling he does n't know , ought to be able to choose where to start looking for it , with a fair degree of success . |
| 8 | You could do with filling out a bit . ’ |
| 9 | German minesweepers had also been sent to the Gulf to clear mines and two German navy planes were reportedly helping with cleaning up the oil slick there . |
| 10 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 11 | The Canadian government body charged with holding down the cost of patented drugs is proposing amendments to its pricing guidelines at the same time a study shows that Canadian prices are often higher than the international median . |
| 12 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 13 | ‘ I am very upset that the council think they can get away with sending out a liability order before magistrates have even considered the case , ’ said Mr Jones , a part-time council security man for over five years . |
| 14 | Oregon has a dozen bills pending that have to do with cutting down the number of pets . |
| 15 | Proceeded with tidying up the beach from MH4 eastwards . |
| 16 | The whole business of listening to lectures is discussed elsewhere ( chapter 3 ) but it is worth emphasising here that note-making is not concerned with taking down every word that a lecturer says . |
| 17 | The A&R person 's job does n't end with handing over the record to the marketing , promotion and sales teams . |
| 18 | Unlike some Poll Tax demonstrations , this one passed off without any violence , protestors were satisfied with handing in a petition to Mrs Thatcher 's front door . |
| 19 | As Foster ( 1979 ) points out , Cast ells was concerned with mapping out the form of specifically urban contradictions , the contradictions which are created between privately owned means of production and collective aspects of reproduction . |
| 20 | David Batty is one of them , but he is more preoccupied with fighting off an ankle injury . |
| 21 | If you want to help , perhaps you 'd give Victorine a hand with washing up the breakfast things ? |
| 22 | Not only that , the civil servants entrusted with carrying out the auction seem unclear how to do the job . |
| 23 | Right , erm , very often it 's to do with making up a painting or a picture of some a picture of some kind is n't it , sticking different bits together , so if you get a , a collection of different things which makes a whole , whole with a w right . |
| 24 | In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system . |
| 25 | Burstall and Kay report that in the case of NAEP early opposition from teacher unions was partly based upon fear of a backwash effect and , indeed , it appears to have been a worry for those involved with setting up the APU testing programme . |
| 26 | But so far , the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes . |
| 27 | The final part of the chapter is concerned with setting out the monetarist challenge to Keynesian economics and with comparing Keynesian and monetarist policy recommendations . |
| 28 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |