Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road .
3 Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked .
4 Both Rachel and Nina got on well with the men , who in turn liked and respected the nursing team , and usually there was an easy-going air of camaraderie in the centre .
5 And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff .
6 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 .
7 Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula .
8 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 .
9 The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines .
10 Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr .
11 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 .
12 ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’
13 So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest .
14 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 .
15 Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard .
16 He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ?
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 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 .
20 But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point .
21 ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater .
22 Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth .
23 Sit down again for a minute .
24 Sit down again for a while . ’
25 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 .
26 WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon .
27 Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform .
28 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 .
29 And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait .
30 If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem .
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