Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting the record straight on story of diplomat 's pipe-playing activities |
| 2 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 3 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 4 | We ourselves are the same it might one subject area , we might have to get down to take on loads of different things . |
| 5 | It expects to take on debts of about £3 million . |
| 6 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 7 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 8 | The road then takes on connotations of purpose but without ever becoming fixed ; journeys by land alternate with journeys by water . |
| 9 | I keep on thinking of him : of things he said and I said , and how we neither of us really understood what the other meant . |
| 10 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 11 | There 's a pain in my lung when I breathe , and I keep on thinking of pneumonia . |
| 12 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 13 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 14 | In winter differs from all sea terns by more sharply defined white shoulder patch , variable but distinctive black spot on side of breast and black bill , as well as by less deeply forked tail . |
| 15 | In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs . |
| 16 | They joined the club 's men 's team who travel to Bedford next week to take on March of Cambridge in their semi-final . |
| 17 | John , Thomas , and Richard , all carried on branches of the business and the designation ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ is applied to them all . |
| 18 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 19 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 20 | The Sonnabend exhibition and simultaneous installations at two other galleries in Chicago and Cologne — the ‘ Banality ’ sculptures came in editions of three — brought in loads of cash , with prices ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 22 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 23 | It lays down definitions of what is a cultural object in terms of age and a value threshold . |
| 24 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 25 | Have to in cases of that sort , I suppose . |
| 26 | While a simple one-off party can be a rewarding subject for video , Christmas parties , and in particular children 's Christmas parties , offer even greater scope for creative video because they take place within the context of a whole season of festivity which has a built in story of its own . |
| 27 | Sometimes the shutters of my room , raised slightly to let in streaks of sunlight between their horizontal slats , made our winter room seem tropical . |
| 28 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 29 | Sitting on the edge of her bed and sipping her tea , she began jotting down notes of the day 's events , separating them into facts and possible explanations . |
| 30 | They can bring in returns of their own . |