Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 32 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 33 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 34 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 39 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 40 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 41 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 51 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 52 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 57 | The qualifying 20s. was no arbitrary figure but the maximum ( 16s. + 4s. for livery ) laid down for a common servant in husbandry by the wage-regulation act of 1515 . |
| 58 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 59 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
| 60 | There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges . |