Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 2 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 3 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 4 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 5 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 6 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 7 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 8 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 9 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |
| 10 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 11 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 12 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 13 | They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week . |
| 14 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 15 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 16 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 17 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 18 | Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about . |
| 19 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 20 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 21 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 22 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 23 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 24 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 25 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 26 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 27 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 28 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 29 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 30 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |