Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 3 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 4 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 5 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 6 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 7 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 8 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 9 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 10 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 11 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 12 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 13 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 14 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 15 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 17 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 18 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 19 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 20 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 21 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 22 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 23 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 25 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 26 | You 're welcome , ’ then went to the sink in the far corner of the kitchen to wash his hands , came back to the fireside to sit down in a chair to the right of the oven , and watched his wife putting out the meal . |
| 27 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 29 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 30 | I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’ |