Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 4 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 5 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 6 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 7 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 8 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 9 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 11 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 12 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 13 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 14 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 15 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 16 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 17 | Terry got on to it through Amnesty International . |
| 18 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 19 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 20 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 21 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 22 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 23 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 24 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 25 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 26 | ‘ Aye ; well ’ — he got on to his feet now — ‘ it takes somebody to expose it . |
| 27 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 28 | Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet . |
| 29 | Then I got on to James again . " |
| 30 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |