Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 2 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 3 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 4 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 5 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 6 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 7 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 8 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 9 | do a quick kill on the tarmac and see what goes on in the town and then they move on |
| 10 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 11 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
| 12 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 13 | So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives . |
| 14 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 15 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 16 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 17 | He made the claim in a letter to East Belfast MP Peter Robinson , passed on to the Herald and Post this week . |
| 18 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 19 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 20 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 21 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 22 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 23 | Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’ |
| 24 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 25 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 26 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 27 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 28 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 29 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 30 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |