Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 4 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 5 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 6 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 7 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 8 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 9 | She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 10 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 11 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 12 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 13 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 14 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 16 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 17 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 18 | For he had not yet fallen on upon any of them . |
| 19 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 20 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 21 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 22 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 23 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 24 | Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected . |
| 25 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 26 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 27 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 28 | I bought a copy in of last weeks Daily Telegraph because interestingly enough , the press seems to be latching on to this er not playing by the rules . |
| 29 | Carpet cleaning needs no chemicals ; handle fits on to heat shield , and steam hose clips on to this |
| 30 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |