Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bit her lip hard as cool sun lotion was smoothed on to her hot skin . |
| 2 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 3 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 4 | ‘ She went back to work very quickly after her operation and if she goes on with her busy life as she fully intends to do , she needs a day or two off occasionally . |
| 5 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 6 | You may also need to lay on a messenger service to deliver the film to the newspaper building while the photographer goes on to his next assignment . |
| 7 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 8 | How much actual , constructive or imputed knowledge does an exchange have of what goes on on its own trading floor ? |
| 9 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 10 | Father Cunningham plans to carry on with his pastoral work for many years to come . |
| 11 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 12 | I want more people — to carry on with your footballing metaphor — to join my team , to kick the ball for me . |
| 13 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |
| 14 | We need to carry on in our supporting role , offering a reliable , efficient and friendly service . |
| 15 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 16 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |
| 17 | The days were truly apocalyptic ; sadly , many of the commentators and reviewers , the would-be art leaders , were merely apoplectic ; not least in fastening on to his overt sexuality , their criticisms of him shielding their own neuroses . |
| 18 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 19 | We agreed that we should be considered rather callous to go on with our usual life when we were reading of 3,000 to 4,000 casualties a day … |
| 20 | He 's got nothing better to do than keep nagging on about our new garden fence . |
| 21 | When she had said that before she had meant it , but now she realised she was lying ; she was wanting to make him feel better and she was also hanging on to her old life to feel safe . |
| 22 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 23 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 24 | Wo n't you be afraid while you sit down for your long wait ? ’ |
| 25 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 26 | Stand up and sit down in your normal way and see if you can notice any habitual tendencies ( anything which occurs every time ) . |
| 27 | Benjamin Titford — the name had always been a popular one with the Carpenter family — was born on 15 December 1786 , and was baptised along with his ill-fated sister Lydia and brother Charles Thynne at St John 's on 27 May 1792 , Whit Sunday . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope to spend the rest of my life convincing you , every day , how very much I love you , ’ he said thickly , gazing down into her lovely face . |
| 29 | ‘ Nor are you , ’ he taunted softly , lifting his head and gazing down into her flushed face . |
| 30 | And as it seems impertinent to invite you to sit down in your own laboratory , I wo n't . |