Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 2 | They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange . |
| 3 | They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’ |
| 4 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 5 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 6 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 7 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 8 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 9 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 10 | They have also suffered dismally with injuries . |
| 11 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |