Example sentences of "with [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 2 | In any case , the argument was quite remote from Lenin 's preoccupation with binding up the wounds of national estrangement . |
| 3 | The assembly , charged with drawing up a new constitution , could pave the way for political pluralism . |
| 4 | The National Assembly 's constitutional commission , charged with drawing up a full new ( large ) constitution , began work on Nov. 17 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Again this is not a view which has been endorsed by all , but it does provide an explanation as to why the government 's proposed reforms are largely confined to measures concerned with speeding up the investigatory process and making existing policy more efficient . |
| 9 | Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment . |
| 10 | With positive support from her colleagues , Lynda has been able to successfully combine a career with bringing up a family . |
| 11 | We have found it to be the ideal way of combining pursuit of a career in medicine with bringing up a family . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You could do with filling out a bit . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This fixation with selling off every remaining part of our national life is a catastrophe unfolding before us . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 16 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Some of you could do with spreading out a little . |
| 24 | Oregon has a dozen bills pending that have to do with cutting down the number of pets . |
| 25 | Proceeded with tidying up the beach from MH4 eastwards . |
| 26 | Many distributions show a peak in a particular age group mainly associated with taking on a large number of young people when the organisation was started or reorganised , this is not desirable because it leads to excessive competition for promotion at particular stages . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 29 | The A&R person 's job does n't end with handing over the record to the marketing , promotion and sales teams . |
| 30 | 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 . |