Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation . |
| 2 | This covers a remarkably wide field starting at the installation , calibration and purely functional end of flight recorders and leading on through their recovery from the wreckage and the techniques of repairing and reading damaged recordings to the ultimate interpretation of the spoken words and environmental noises in the cockpit and the determination of the aerodynamic implications of recorded data . |
| 3 | The assembly passed it to presbyteries and they in turn passed it on through their billets to ministers who in turn were supposed to pass it to sessions and it was supposed to be discussed at session level and turned down to ordinary congregations . |
| 4 | By unspoken consent they worked on through their lunchbreak . |
| 5 | Based in Minnesota they have had little if any real distribution in the UK until Terry Shearer , who did so much at Spandex to get IBM 's 4250 accepted by the printing industry , took them on through his new company , PrePress Solutions . |
| 6 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 7 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 8 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 9 | Moving on through your questions , you also asked for ten people who have inspired me politically . |
| 10 | Living in the moment , she drank her milk and began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist . |
| 11 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 12 | But , because Carol Seymour-Jones bangs on about her unamiability , there is little sense of Webb 's achievements or self-know-ledge in her book . |
| 13 | Loads of blokes like the Manics and Bobby Gillespie go on about her being a great pop star , but can you remember the words ? |
| 14 | ‘ That 's not me , ’ she said ‘ The woman in those papers , ’ It was confusing , sometimes , when she 'd go on about her papers , Sometimes she meant the ones that proved she was a citizen , sometimes the others , the ones that proved she was n't So she believed . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember one journalist went on about her black dress from Yves Saint Laurent at the wedding , and how I wore cords , as if they were shocked that Catherine Deneuve would be with someone like me . |
| 16 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 17 | He came back to me , went on about her being West Indian and all that . |
| 18 | ‘ She would keep banging on about her son . |
| 19 | She got quite enough teasing about her name without letting on about her all-too-appropriate birth-date — and her parents ' hasty marriage was hardly his concern . |
| 20 | The wife poses against the bright red carpet and lime green sofa which she 's chosen and goes on about her husband 's appalling colour sense . |
| 21 | But she never let on about her boyfriend 's criminal past . |
| 22 | ‘ O Lord ! ’ she said , speaking extra loud to drown out Tracy mumbling on about her womb . |
| 23 | She 'd already found out much more about Puddephat than she 'd hoped — she 'd even got a promising suspect in the shape of Theo Sykes — and there was no point in banging on about her non-existent book outline . |
| 24 | It was embarrassing , the way he kept on about her being the same as she was twenty years ago . |
| 25 | Isabella Bird , the fragile Victorian traveller , twitters on about her angst and ailments . |
| 26 | Did Kelly go on about her teeth ? |
| 27 | Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like , I do n't know if it was the same bloke , I just du n no , yes it is , yes it is , it 's got ta be the one , when she broke her shoulder , it 's got ta be , anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is , I ca n't remember where it was |
| 28 | ‘ They will go on about their willies and chopping blondes to bits , and who cares ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They will go on about their willies and chopping blondes to bits , and who cares ? ’ |
| 30 | To people who went on about their likeness the girl was assiduous in pointing out that every feature when compared was different , but they were recognisable instantly as mother and daughter , as the woman in the shop said , they were from the same mould . |