Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 2 | Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms . |
| 3 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 4 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 5 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 6 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |
| 7 | Lives on behind the wrinkled brows |
| 8 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 9 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |
| 10 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 11 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 12 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 13 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 14 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 15 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 16 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 17 | She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours . |
| 18 | Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles . |
| 19 | On the night of Friday , 8th September , the barrier was broken through and rescue workers wearing breathing apparatus were able to take hot food and drinks through to the trapped men . |
| 20 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 21 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 22 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 23 | Scale length checks in at the Fender-like 25½″ . |
| 24 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 25 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 26 | You need to bring it to a place where God reaches out into the secret places of the soul . |
| 27 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 28 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 29 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 30 | One finger , one thumb , keep moving This song builds up with the appropriate actions so the second verse is : ‘ One finger one thumb one arm keep moving . |