Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When federalists bleat on about how interdependent the world is , one wonders what world they live in . |
| 2 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 3 | Go up there , up to their stairs , that 's her kitchen window and there 's a lo big sun lounge there that goes right along there and right along here . |
| 4 | For each threatening look flung from one table to the other passed right across where I was sitting , between them . |
| 5 | ‘ He would have been cheering loudest out there . ’ |
| 6 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 7 | They had liked each other , got on with remarkably little rancour and he had been genuinely upset , if principally in his pride , when she had left him . |
| 8 | Like this girl Tracey that he got on with really well , I mean I , I 'd really disliked her , this girl that Claire knows . |
| 9 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 10 | Of course , these figures unhelpfully group together millions of fit elderly people whose life-style differs little from when they were middle aged . |
| 11 | If a layer of liquid is heated uniformly from below , a temperature gradient is established between the top and the bottom of the layer . |
| 12 | Usually runs uphill , but flies downhill with fast whirring flight . |
| 13 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |
| 14 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 15 | In the cold half-light the rock looked stark and forbidding ; as we cruised slowly to leeward the most appalling stench drifted down wind . |
| 16 | There is a minor cill just downstream ; the headlong descent goes on with only 50 yds ' respite before the 350 yds continuous grade II rapids leading to Dulnain bridge . |
| 17 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 18 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 19 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 20 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 21 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 22 | It 's best to have a time limit for a team 's deliberations — say thirty seconds — or the game goes on for ever . |
| 23 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 24 | It goes on for ever . |
| 25 | The cultural-ideological project of global capitalism is to persuade people to consume above their own perceived needs in order to perpetuate the accumulation of capital for private profit , in other words , to ensure that the global capitalist system goes on for ever . |
| 26 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 27 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 28 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 29 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 30 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |