Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 2 | He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie . |
| 3 | Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned . |
| 4 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 5 | He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says . |
| 6 | Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath . |
| 7 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 8 | Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel . |
| 9 | Hunt on for Mersey 's top businesswoman |
| 10 | The search is on for Darlington 's young sports winner for 1992 . |
| 11 | QPR 's right back Bardsley came on for Arsenal 's Lee Dixon at the start of the second half , but lasted only 19 minutes before limping off . |
| 12 | Sir Wyn Roberts hangs on as Britain 's longest-serving minister of state because he is the only Tory MP who writes poetry in Welsh . |
| 13 | Fearing pre-election jitters would make things worse for French collectors this year , organisers Daniel Gervis and Florence Benhaim also changed the dates of the Salon to put it on after France 's two-round General Election on 21 and 28 March . |
| 14 | Throw their young lives away in a stupid , ill-considered and bloody botch of an idea to come in through Europe 's back door . |
| 15 | That time , I came in through Queen 's Square , walked down the lane to the union and out towards the hospital . |
| 16 | The food to feed this hungry nation has been coming in through Mogadishu 's port . |
| 17 | Derek Andrews should be sampling but G. stands in during Andrews ' holidays . |
| 18 | WELL and truly ramped , the Tokyo stockmarket is about to shut down for Japan 's annual Golden Week holiday . |
| 19 | Yeah , that 's it , double cooker actually , gon na try , get some flooring down for Colin 's mum , just gon na put some cheap lino down for now |
| 20 | well she came down for Keith 's sake , she came down to Bournemouth for holidays and erm like it so much she brought the company . |
| 21 | On June 21 P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as India 's ninth Prime Minister by President Venkataraman . |
| 22 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide , the unexpected winner of a landslide victory in elections on Dec. 16 , was sworn in as Haiti 's 40th President on Feb. 7 . |
| 23 | The First Deputy Prime Minister , Goh Chok Tong , was duly sworn in as Lee 's replacement . |
| 24 | Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia 's first President by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 25 | Paish has been brought in as Leeds ' fitness expert by boss Howard Wilkinson . |
| 26 | On the ground a sheep lay , its four feet tied together , its head flat on the stones , held down between Anderson 's boots its white , frightened eyes were turning upwards Anderson stood above it . |
| 27 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 28 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 29 | He had put her down as Tiffany 's successor . |
| 30 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |