Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 2 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 3 | with primer on , spraying inside and the outside , taking off both the wings and bump bit where the bonnet goes on to the slam pan , got ta take the er the wings out , I mean the , the lights out anyway . |
| 4 | How how can we tell , because as an officer , and this is this is Richard 's point , as an officer how do you know what goes on in the barrack room ? |
| 5 | Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers . |
| 6 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 7 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 8 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 9 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 10 | Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves . |
| 11 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 12 | Then MARK GOODIER clangs along with The Wedding Present , Number Six escapes to London — or does he ? — in THE PRISONER and America 's finest living poet and ‘ reformed ’ coke head storms Las Vegas in SMOKEY ROBINSON IN CONCERT . |
| 13 | His name lives on in the Fairbairn Centre for the Deaf , Southampton , where he was a committee member for many years . |
| 14 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 15 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 16 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 17 | It 'll be after 2am before she bunks down in The Hitman coach on the way back to London . |
| 18 | As the water trickles down into the water table , the rivers receive a constant supply of water and can irrigate agricultural land effectively . |
| 19 | And lying back with a smile , he glances over towards the colour TV in the corner of the room . |
| 20 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 21 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 22 | The Way actually joins up with the Cotswold Way at this point if you fancy a more epic walk . |
| 23 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 24 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 25 | And , you know , I get stuff which comes at me and I pass on to someone else and gradually the process goes until it finishes up in the wastepaper bin , and usually they 're the ones which are the longest which do n't get read . |
| 26 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 27 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 28 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 29 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 30 | The way in which poverty causes illness is not merely through the lack of adequate material resources but also through the associated forms of employment and the culture that develops out of the material situation . |