Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 2 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 3 | The Pope goes on to Mauritius on Saturday . |
| 4 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 5 | The lovely scenery continues as the walk travels along woodland paths to reach the little lake of Tarn Hows and goes on past Elterwater to Dungeon Ghyll . |
| 6 | The show goes on in Malvern until Sunday afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of hacking goes on inside companies by employees trying to find easier ways of doing their jobs . |
| 8 | The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want . |
| 9 | One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime . |
| 10 | Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) . |
| 11 | Valine 172 and the disulphide bridge residues 110 and 174 contribute to the hydrophobic core of domain 2 , after which the path of the main chain is locked to continue on into solution by Pro 175 . |
| 12 | PETER SHILTON is 90 minutes from a potential disaster — but the former England international vows to carry on as player-manager of Plymouth even if the club lose to non-League Dorking tomorrow . |
| 13 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 14 | Some will ‘ get the taste ’ of fresh water by moulting on freshwater lochs in Shetland , raising hopes yet again that this attractive duck will one day stay on to nest in Shetland . |
| 15 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 16 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 17 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 18 | In 1967 , a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 20 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 21 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 22 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 23 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 24 | We decided to go on to Mallawi by train . |
| 25 | The former came from ‘ blues ’ ( amphetamines ) as it was common for dances to go on from Saturday into Sunday . |
| 26 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 27 | I felt useful when , during exercise periods , I could have Anderson choking with laughter , hanging on to Brian for support , as I imitated one of the guards and his absurdly curious use of English . |
| 28 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 29 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 30 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |