Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese .
2 As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them .
3 Part of the panel members is might be classed as partly walking wounded but endeavour to carry on during the course of the day , you will find out who 's the walking wounded .
4 We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do .
5 It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring .
6 ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide .
7 I now wish to go on to the order concerning access .
8 Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict .
9 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
10 How long are you going to go on with the farce of keeping this bloody lot in business ? "
11 He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life .
12 In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage .
13 I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family .
14 No need to go on about the band in this preamble .
15 This phenomenon , which we call ‘ cognitive trial-and-error ’ , requires a deductive process to go on inside the mind of the animal without its actually trying different behaviours .
16 We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this .
17 This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another .
18 That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’
19 He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness .
20 Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket .
21 Also , the pressure on ministers to hustle along with the removal of lead may subside after a general election .
22 Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid .
23 ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’
24 She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do .
25 ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it .
26 If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions .
27 Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself .
28 She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell .
29 He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain .
30 Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’
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