Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie . |
| 32 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 33 | Carry on through Upton Fen Nature Reserve — an exceptional site for dragonflies including the rare Norfolk aeshna . |
| 34 | So one bio-day placidly followed another , the ship plunged on through Highlight , and nothing at all of importance happened . |
| 35 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 36 | As has been suggested by earlier speakers , please pass it on through schools , colleges wherever you might be active within the movement , or through children in local schools . |
| 37 | As Plowden summarises , ‘ Action on through traffic is … hardly ever sufficient as a means of creating or restoring good environmental conditions . ’ |
| 38 | The motorway slashed on through fields and villages without regard for either , and after a while the villages flowed together and became towns , and the towns joined and merged to take on the appearance of a city . |
| 39 | From Cinderford , the brook flows on through Ruspidge , past the 17th century Soudley furnace and , on reaching Upper Soudley , becomes known as the Soudley Brook . |
| 40 | On their journey , the family travelled to Hungary , then on through Switzerland and Belgium to London . |
| 41 | They could have easily taken the lead early on through newboy Gareth Abrahams . |
| 42 | Genesis takes the story on through Isaac and Jacob to the death of Joseph in Egypt . |
| 43 | ‘ I know I keep on about Mrs Kemp , sir , but do n't you think we ought — ’ |
| 44 | Just picking up on Professor Lock 's point earlier on about changes in the nineteen eighties or since the nineteen eighties , erm as in my statement I have suggested that there has been a substantial loss of nature conservation interest and wild life habitats both in this county and throughout the country . |
| 45 | Cos they 're always on about credit allowances and this that and therefore |
| 46 | He went on about mum . |
| 47 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 48 | There is a general section in the middle which probably goes into all such official club magazines — it craps on about Man U and Gazza a lot . |
| 49 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 50 | Who told them to start drivelling on about happiness ? |
| 51 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 52 | They go mad when we start going on about JFK . |
| 53 | We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ? |
| 54 | You on about Emma here ? |
| 55 | Cos they were on about Emma . |
| 56 | Honestly , Ethel , she sounded really mad , wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike . |
| 57 | No more listening to Charlie wittering on about architecture and the environment and bringing home his latest plant pals for her to talk to . |
| 58 | You were gabbling on about lizards and turtles and Australia and whales . |
| 59 | But Puddephat goes on about hermeneutics and ontology , and the master pretends he understands . |
| 60 | You are lost in a strange country , among a lot of incomprehensible wogs going on about Twenty-fourthers and God knows what , and you are probably scared stiff ! ’ |