Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 2 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 3 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 4 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 5 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 6 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 7 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 8 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 9 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 10 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 12 | And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people . |
| 13 | Well that man 's , there is a tiny little ma , well he stopped me going out with Dorothy . |
| 14 | ‘ I found I got on with him reasonably well . |
| 15 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 16 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 17 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |
| 18 | In spite of her discomfort , she must have dozed off , because she found herself sitting up with a start , all her senses suddenly alerted by the sound of a key , the creak of a hinge . |
| 19 | She tried to look annoyed , but the teasing warmth in his hazel eyes disarmed her , and she found herself laughing along with him . |
| 20 | In the presence of a lovely woman he was carried away and , ignoring her husband completely , presented Lunia with the finished sketch and invited her to go out with him that evening . |
| 21 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 22 | She let him carry on with his stupidity and offered no elaboration nor explanation of her terms . |
| 23 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 24 | Why does her brother Hindley let her run around with such a companion ? ’ wondered Mr Linton . |
| 25 | ‘ When we were approached on this deal we used it to tie in with the release of one of our hostages held in Lebanon . ’ |
| 26 | Six Broadstairs matrons attempting to shop at Marchesi 's the confectioners , two errand boys buying bloaters from Mr Goodman the fishmonger , a few afternoon revellers strolling out from the Dolphin Inn and an eager group from the Tourist Cycling Club staying at the Balmoral Bijou Hotel found themselves swept along with the crowd as they pursued their leaders down Harbour Street under the ancient York Gate ( which being without specific Dickensian associations hardly received a glance ) . |
| 27 | I found myself wandering round with a wry smile on my face and occasionally bursting into laughter at my own presumption . |
| 28 | Levi told himself to get on with it . |
| 29 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , he did begin to go on about it being unusual for him to be that side of the bar , but I told him to get on with it . ’ |