Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 2 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 3 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 4 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 5 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 6 | This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials . |
| 7 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 8 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 9 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 10 | Her personal philosophy fits in well with a proactive and innovative polytechnic . |
| 11 | However , the guaranteed harmony of economic activity resulting either from a mechanistic or biological analogy fits in awkwardly with a Christian view of man and work . |
| 12 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 13 | Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county . |
| 14 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 15 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 17 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 18 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 19 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 20 | If there are any holes or dips in the cake , these can be filled in now with a little marzipan and glaze . |
| 21 | The new format certainly appeared to go down well with the packed crowd . |
| 22 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah just like to know the company Ah 'll be keepin' down there in the Southern Ocean . ’ |
| 24 | She was walking on ahead up the narrow path now , he following behind pushing his bike , when he said , ‘ Your people live here ? ’ |
| 25 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 26 | ‘ Can you hang on here for a few moments ? ’ |
| 27 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 28 | After the election , though , the NDP faded into the ranks of the coalition majority , having neither roots nor party organization of their own , and Unionist efforts were carried on instead through a Labour wing in their own party . |
| 29 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 30 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |