Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an experienced member of a well-drilled team , but was killed when he became tangled up with a colleague . |
| 2 | Then he was made redundant and started an apprenticeship in his father 's trade of toolmaking — until he got fed up with it . |
| 3 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 4 | He does not see himself as having sold out ; he says he got fed up with magazine editors wanting throwaway images . |
| 5 | Collects them and then he started pulling their heads off when he got fed up with them . |
| 6 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 7 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 8 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 9 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 10 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
| 11 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 12 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 13 | It is a hobby he has taken up with two main aims in mind : ‘ Firstly , it keeps my hand in as far as manufacturing is concerned and secondly I like to see this small bit of entrepreneuralism on my doorstep . |
| 14 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 15 | Harper told the court he 'd gone out with both Becky and Emma in the 6 months he knew them . |
| 16 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 17 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 18 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 19 | no did n't like how he grouted it because she said there , things like a little nick in the tile , if he 'd gone in with the grouting it would n't of shown any and he did n't |
| 20 | Apparently he 'd fixed up with the travel agency which handled Dalgety 's bookings for you to join him at all the Grands Prix . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd met up with a marvellous girl in Munster , anyway ; then a fully consenting Hausfrau from Hamburg … and so it had gone on . |
| 22 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 23 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 24 | He reckoned he 'd a right to nice things the same as this bad company he 'd got in with . |
| 25 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 26 | If he gets fed up with it he 'll just stop and we wo n't mind . |
| 27 | The flare of hatred vanished , to be replaced by the now familiar wave of misery that had descended on him when he had broken up with Suzi . |
| 28 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 29 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 30 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |