Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 2 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 3 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 4 | All around him , the other England players gradually acclimatised to their new surroundings , pleasantly suprised by the facilities laid on by the Indian authorities . |
| 5 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 6 | UN specialists say that the regulations , plans and treaties agreed on by the Mediterranean countries have not significantly curbed the outpouring of sewage and industrial effluent from the 360 million people who live around the Mediterranean basin . |
| 7 | A statement agreed on by the Foreign Ministers asserted " the illegitimacy of all forms of Israeli settlement " in the occupied territories and stressed the importance of " full UN participation " and " effective EC participation " in the peace process . |
| 8 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 9 | Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms . |
| 10 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 11 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 12 | He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem . |
| 13 | Dom Pérignon cared little for the wooden plugs wrapped in oil-soaked hemp which were in use during his time . |
| 14 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 15 | James Allan flies economically with the air-minded Kiwis . |
| 16 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 17 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 18 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 19 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 20 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 21 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 22 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 23 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 24 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 25 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 26 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 27 | For Jack , time seemed to stand still as he sat at his stepfather 's bedside , gazing down into the inanimate features and waiting for a miracle . |
| 28 | Could you repeat the bit about the insect-headed aliens gazing down from the spinning globules of light ? |
| 29 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 30 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |