Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’ |
| 2 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 3 | Because people have done one job , during the day , and then having to go on to another job at night , and make no mistake , that , you know , this is the sort of legislation that we need , to protect us , the public from what , you know , the consequences of somebody working |
| 4 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 6 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 7 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 8 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 9 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 10 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 11 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom 's negotiators must alter the attitude with which they have approached the question of integration to date : considering as ‘ victories ’ what are at best delays in the advance of Federalism , and being willing , at the last , to go along with any formula of political union as an alternative to being ‘ relegated ’ to an ‘ outer tier ’ of the EEC . |
| 13 | We used to go along to various churches in the area playing music . |
| 14 | And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock . |
| 15 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 16 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 17 | It is also a procedure that is beginning to catch on in other areas of a solicitor 's work . |
| 18 | Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ? |
| 19 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
| 20 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 21 | Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler . |
| 22 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 23 | ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’ |
| 24 | erm which quite simply I had some money of my own and I was n't that hungry er to jump in to any job at all . |
| 25 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 26 | The whole grief reaction often takes about two years to work through from initial denial to final acceptance . |
| 27 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
| 28 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 29 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 30 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |