Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 32 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 33 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 34 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 35 | And it goes on , it goes on every night right ? |
| 36 | Goes on an hour |
| 37 | it goes , it goes on an hour |
| 38 | and erm it was really remarkable because er , I mean presumably the Germans were told about it and erm kept U-boats and and the from shipping out the er |
| 39 | To ‘ love the motherland ’ was to embrace wholeheartedly the doctrines of the leadership , even if they were slightly contradictory . |
| 40 | As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me . |
| 41 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
| 42 | Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes |
| 43 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 44 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 45 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 46 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 47 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 48 | Treaty , freely to carry on a business . |
| 49 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
| 50 | If they were found worthy they were given help , including cash and the tools to carry on a trade , help in finding a job and regular visitation and advice until they could ‘ stand on their own feet ’ . |
| 51 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
| 52 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
| 53 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 54 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 55 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 56 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 57 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 58 | Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball . |
| 59 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 60 | Mrs Hillaby , the first woman to hold the post , is at least the fourth generation of the family to carry on the tradition . |