Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 3 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 4 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 5 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 6 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 7 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 8 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 9 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 10 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 11 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 12 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 13 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 15 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 16 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 17 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 19 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 20 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 21 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 22 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 23 | A few other media met the conditions of technology , but simply failed to catch on with a mass audience . |
| 24 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 25 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 26 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 27 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 28 | This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment . |
| 29 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 30 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |