Example sentences of "they [adv prt] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sew them on with elasticated cotton so that they ‘ give ’ a little . |
| 2 | So bear in mind photo opportunities and indeed getting photographs yourself and sending them in with appropriate captions to the magazine or newspaper and so on . |
| 3 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 4 | Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs . |
| 5 | Tablecloths can be easily tugged off , so hold them down with double-sided tape or tuck the corners in . |
| 6 | The regard in which chiefs held their jade ornaments is shown by the way they stored them along with prized bird plumage in the elaborately carved wooden treasure boxes which rank among the most outstanding products of Maori art . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And that , you know , not tying them up with endless pettifogging regulations . |
| 11 | advise small businesses and link them up with private investors . |
| 12 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 13 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 14 | The urgent challenge now is to educate worldwide , to bring the relevance of gene-pool conservation down to earth , and to harness the energy of economic forces and team them up with long-term conservation . |
| 15 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 16 | When considering the armament of your Goblins remember arming them up with light armour and fancy weapons makes them expensive for what they are . |
| 17 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 18 | Plain white tiles are the cheapest : brighten them up with coloured grouting , or mix them with other plain tiles to build up an eye-catching pattern |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One approach is to impose statutory reserve or cash requirements on banks and all other financial institutions , and then engage in tough open-market operations , possibly backing them up with special deposits ( again applied to all financial institutions ) . |
| 21 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 22 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 23 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 24 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 25 | A record-player shuffled a few simple chords violently together , then dealt them out with heavy emphasis . |
| 26 | Why he needed to choose this moment to pass the time of day with all and sundry and — good grief ! — take a wad of notes from his back pocket and count them out with infuriating slowness — was anybody 's guess . |
| 27 | Give a financial market bad instructions and it will carry them out with ruthless efficiency |
| 28 | However , after an encouraging first half year , they along with other parts of the group , were not immune to the increasing pressures of the recession . |