Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 2 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 3 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 4 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 5 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 6 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |
| 7 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 8 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
| 9 | Who knows what goes on behind those net curtains . |
| 10 | Er , what goes on behind those closed doors , even I do n't know . |
| 11 | I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor . |
| 12 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 13 | I have to go on with this particular trip . |
| 14 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 15 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 16 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 17 | So I sit in between these two men and I |
| 18 | BELVILLE : [ angrily ] Pamela , pray sit down with these good neighbours . |
| 19 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 20 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 21 | In Lawrence 's essays it goes along with that familiar stance of hard-earned adjustment whereby sickness is always someone else 's problem — the masses , the modern world , women , homosexuals , whoever . |
| 22 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 23 | In Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 the court held that where a lease provides that an application to appoint a surveyor is to be made to a specified appointing body like the RICS , the application had to follow the procedures laid down by that appointing body . |
| 24 | It tells the fascinating story of his summer of 1991 , which he spent flying a Stearman ( nicknamed Cannibal Queen ) around the USA , touching down in all 48 states of the continental United States . |
| 25 | He watched them disappear from his view , his father still waddling along with that bloody basket . |
| 26 | Even this part of the production process is itself broken down into many different stages at Kalmar . |
| 27 | Each group is broken down into many different variants depending on the particular way in which the image is transferred onto the paper ; daisy wheel , ink jet , thermal transfer and so on . |
| 28 | Well that he does he usually goes down at half six quarter to seven . |
| 29 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 30 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |