Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 2 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 3 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 4 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 5 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 6 | Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones . |
| 7 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 8 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 9 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 10 | Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard . |
| 11 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 12 | When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night . |
| 13 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 14 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 15 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 16 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 17 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 18 | — Sit down again for a minute . |
| 19 | ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’ |
| 20 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 21 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 22 | Am I going to sit down comfortably in a studio and be interviewed , or is this guy going to come to my office with a piece of equipment like that , which we will be using later , a ewer , or a Nigra whatever piece of portable equipment they have . |
| 23 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 24 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 25 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 26 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 27 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 28 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 29 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 30 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |