Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her .
2 Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital .
3 When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners .
4 They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms .
5 Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder .
6 About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange .
7 Starting in South Island , you will find that flying in to land amid the snowfields of Mount Cook or the ice of Fox Glacier of Franz Josef in the Southern Alps is something PPL visitors can unfortunately only do as passengers in the fixed-wing or chopper flights that operate out of local airfields .
8 We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying .
9 ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . )
10 With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan .
11 ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee .
12 Equally , individual officers had over reacted to the disturbances with the over zealous use of dogs , truncheons and a number of unlawful weapons .
13 The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion .
14 It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries .
15 He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory .
16 He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places .
17 The other girls followed suit , and the waitress , after a moment 's hesitation , wrung in turn the outstretched hands before hurrying off to attend to the needs of a customer who , to judge by his impatience , was in the last stages of starvation .
18 She pretended not to see David Rosen who appeared on the step as they drove off to talk to the men at the place where they gathered before work .
19 God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table .
20 The Board had been set up according to the provisions of the 1902 Education Act , which also created Local Education Authorities .
21 Instead , we ended up wandering over the moors above Hebden Bridge .
22 At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people .
23 He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees .
24 Sleeping in the shade , waking up staring through the leaves at the cobalt blue sky , thinking how impossible things were to paint , how can some blue pigment ever mean the living blue light of the sky ?
25 Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land .
26 This may be followed by a visit or telephone call only if such follow up relates to the needs of the clients of the professional adviser , not the needs of the professional adviser itself .
27 He stood up ticking off the events with his glass aginst the fingers of his left hand .
28 He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players .
29 Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ .
30 The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore .
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