Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] with [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’
2 They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope .
3 Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television .
4 The United Kingdom 's negotiators must alter the attitude with which they have approached the question of integration to date : considering as ‘ victories ’ what are at best delays in the advance of Federalism , and being willing , at the last , to go along with any formula of political union as an alternative to being ‘ relegated ’ to an ‘ outer tier ’ of the EEC .
5 Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ?
6 You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ?
7 The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses .
8 It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them .
9 We 've seen community participation in trying to come up with immediate solutions to the problems resulting from the war — we 're talking particularly about materials and infrastructure .
10 Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime :
11 If BA fails to come up with new proposals before the deadline , the Virgin chief may pursue a settlement in the US or European courts .
12 Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year .
13 The aim of this project is to investigate these problems and to come up with suggested methods of analysis which are generally applicable to complex surveys .
14 The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost .
15 It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form .
16 Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’
17 They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum .
18 It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care .
19 You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own .
20 Different people are at liberty to come up with different methods of doing the calculations , but probably the most authoritative index is the ‘ encephalization quotient ’ or EQ used by Harry Jerison , a leading American authority on brain history .
21 The US Supreme Court has repealed the section of the 1985 nuclear waste federal law which compels states to find disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste if they have failed to come up with another solution by 1996 .
22 If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own .
23 What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment .
24 But suddenly , the major preoccupation of the cosmetic industry is to come up with original ways of making it easier for you to choose and use the right products .
25 He returned to England in the latter half of June and hardly had time to catch up with outstanding work before going into hospital in July to undergo the postponed operation upon his hernia .
26 Accordingly , reports the January edition of our sister publication in the UK , IBM System User , the company is planning to come out with parallel lines of RS/6000s , with the present models and their derivatives assuming a T for Technical subscript , while a new line , based on versions of the PowerPC , will carry a C for Commercial tag .
27 The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen .
28 Both seem to crop up with predictable regularity on my visits to this part of the world .
29 The only names to crop up with any regularity by then were Isabelia Penny , Mary Ryan , Ellen Redmond , Mary Connor , Ann Kinsala and Jane Fearon .
30 Jane McLoughlin also met an ex-hacker who , since his self-cure , had been able to look back with some pleasure at his early hacking day 's : ‘ I 'd kick that machine of mine into life , sing a snatch of Yes .
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