Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer .
2 But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ .
3 ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’
4 Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field .
5 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
6 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
7 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
8 Let's r log on to the A drive first presumably ?
9 Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt .
10 We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room .
11 Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality .
12 Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities .
13 Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue .
14 Sensed somewhere below the thinking mind , somehow older and wiser than consciousness , there is …
15 A modern hotel situated right in the city centre and only 300 metres walk from the railway station .
16 the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area .
17 They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas .
18 Sub-set variable is listed numerically after the base part , with cross-reference to the parent assembly/s .
19 The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses .
20 The cause is a faulty ( or nonexistent ) thermostat not allowing hot water to circulate properly through the inlet manifold .
21 They suffer badly from the leaf menace .
22 The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point .
23 TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond .
24 We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns .
25 These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes .
26 A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid .
27 with primer on , spraying inside and the outside , taking off both the wings and bump bit where the bonnet goes on to the slam pan , got ta take the er the wings out , I mean the , the lights out anyway .
28 How how can we tell , because as an officer , and this is this is Richard 's point , as an officer how do you know what goes on in the barrack room ?
29 Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers .
30 Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green .
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