Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 2 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 3 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 4 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 5 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 6 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 7 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 8 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 9 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 10 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 11 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 12 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 13 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 14 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 15 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 16 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 17 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 18 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 19 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 20 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 21 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 22 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 23 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 24 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 25 | Sick leave will be granted under the terms laid down in the Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code . |
| 26 | We suggest that the procedure laid down in the Environmental Protection Act for registers under parts I and VI of the Act could be used in this situation . |
| 27 | ‘ Friends of Killynure ’ fearing that , Killynure House will be closed despite claims that the present home subscribes fully to the criteria laid down in the consultative document for the provision of residential care for elderly people , now appeal to the fast growing community of Carryduff and surrounding areas to support the fight for the retention of the home by signing a petition against closure . |
| 28 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 29 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 30 | When it comes to crime and punishment , the penalties laid down in the Old Testament for offences against the person are more severe than for offences against property . |