Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guessing game goes on with the diviner responding to the client 's cues so that at the end of the consultation , the client departs with all his worst suspicions amply confirmed . |
| 2 | What goes on in the bedroom remains strictly off-limits . |
| 3 | I mean , you might think ‘ well , what goes on in the staffroom does n't get round to the kids ’ but it does , it does , even if it is just through the teacher 's own attitude . |
| 4 | She passed on up the street liking and not being detained by the people there and reached her house . |
| 5 | You should walk briskly every other day , and on alternate days walk for 20 minutes at a slower pace to build up a regular routine , until you feel ready to go on to the 30-day walk back to fitness programme at the end of this chapter . |
| 6 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 7 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 8 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 9 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 10 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 11 | It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score . |
| 12 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 13 | Back down in the valley waited Frau Von Diesel , raven-haired , exotic wife of the inn-keeper . |
| 14 | Wilson wrote back on 28th November , saying that the Treasury Lords considered that the accommodation laid down in the competition had little relevance to the current proposals . |
| 15 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 16 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 17 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 18 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 19 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 20 | Stepping down off the chair to pick it up , so did I , and I got stuck . |
| 21 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 22 | On Tuesday 17 September 1745 King James VIII was proclaimed at the Market Cross and his chosen regent , prince Charles , rode in to the city wearing Highland dress , crowned by a blue velvet bonnet and the now ubiquitous Jacobite badge , a white cockade . |
| 23 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 24 | This allowed the filter to slide down to the bottom submerging the trickle filter section . |
| 25 | It was a large , grassy paddock , wired in over the top to stop the high-climbing cats from escaping . |
| 26 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 27 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 28 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 29 | We moved on across the island to see the kittiwakes ' colony and yet more puffins , this time with beakfulls of fish returning to their nesting burrows . |
| 30 | Crossing the head of the ravine , he headed on up the meadow keeping within the treeline for protection and using the flashlight . |