Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they have to make a choice : should they stay Japanese , or try to blend in with the locals ? |
| 2 | Those who foresaw the inevitability of this could take one of three ways out : commit suicide like the Itelmens ; resist and fight like the Chukchis ; or learn to get along with the newcomers . |
| 3 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 4 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 5 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 6 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 7 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 8 | For the past sixteen years , he has lived and worked in New York and has battled daily with the American inability to understand the strange words and peculiar constructions which lace and buckle his Wexford brogue . |
| 9 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 10 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 11 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 12 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 13 | " Oh , what the hell , " he muttered , and began to toy listlessly with the food . |
| 14 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 15 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He began getting very rebellious and started hanging around with the wrong crowd , says Steven . |
| 17 | Within ten minutes , Woodrow Wilson had consulted with his chiefs of staff in the war room , and decided to go ahead with the contingency plan . |
| 18 | Klein had been responsible for a controversial sale to the Daimler-Benz engineering firm of city-owned land in central Berlin , and had co-operated closely with the Treuhand agency responsible for administering and selling-off state-owned industrial property in eastern Germany . |
| 19 | When he retired from the RAF he remained a most active civilian doctor on the staff at Halton and continued to rush off with the ‘ go-team ’ in response to any call from the AIB duty co-ordinator for some years afterwards . |
| 20 | Related ideas like shared writing , dictated writing and invented spelling together with the introduction of new technology including the word processor should all contribute to an easing of the tension associated with traditional attitudes to spelling and handwriting . |
| 21 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 22 | In order to succeed against paper owners who seek possession , squatters must prove that , for at least twelve years , they have actually possessed the land , and have done so with the intention to possess it ( animus possidendi ) and adversely . |
| 23 | Recent studies have posed the question as to whether there is a link between film violence and real violence and have come up with the answer that the majority of people think there is , though at least one study concluded the opposite . |
| 24 | Bob Watt , chairman of Livingston Development Corporation , said : ‘ We are conscious of the potential of Russell Corporation 's expansion within Europe and have worked closely with the company as it has developed . |
| 25 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 26 | They really are extinct , but managed to compete successfully with the bivalves for a considerable time . |
| 27 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 28 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |