Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We travelled on through air and time . |
| 2 | She watched and nothing moved : a landing light left on through forgetfulness or fear of the dark . |
| 3 | The virus is most effectively passed on through blood or semen , and has to enter the bloodstream to become established . |
| 4 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 5 | No more listening to Charlie wittering on about architecture and the environment and bringing home his latest plant pals for her to talk to . |
| 6 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 7 | He drones on about deception and intent to defraud and the imposing of penalties , and I 'm watching dumb like a picture on the wall . |
| 8 | And I think it 's fruitless going on about blame and suspicion and guilt . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't say it 's a coincidence that in every interview you see with these women the journalist always picks that five minutes where they 're going on about abuse or victimisation . |
| 10 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 11 | They felt they had hit the targets by going on about tax and emphasising the warning that votes for the Lib Dems would only help Labour . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 15 | However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment . |
| 16 | But , the morality a and to go on about Christianity and again , tha I feel ashamed sometimes when I think of myself you know , a Christian , that 's not Christianity ! |
| 17 | Meanwhile , observers , who claim there are still chats going on between HP and NeXT ( UX No 372 ) , say NeXTStep wo n't run on just any 486 : it takes SuperVGA just to get mono and a JAWS card to get colour . |
| 18 | Finally she solved the problem by agreeing to let Ted do it provided none of us told Mum and as long as Ted gave Jean a full report at the end of each day on what precisely was going on between Dad and Eva . |
| 19 | Patients who were operated on between midnight and 6 am also had an increased rate of unnecessary operations ( 39/125 , 31% ) . |
| 20 | You do n't know what 's gone on and what still goes on between G.P. and me , she seemed to say . |
| 21 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 22 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |
| 23 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 24 | HIV may be passed on during sex when blood , semen ( spunk or cum ) or vaginal fluids from an infected person enter the bloodstream of her or his partner . |
| 25 | She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden . |
| 26 | While I just put these few beans on for dad that we do n't like in the microwave . |
| 27 | And EVERY day there is something going on for mum and dad or the kiddies . |
| 28 | Hers is perhaps a 30 year plan , a code that will keep her name in neon until her teenage fans are getting on for grandparenthood and Madonna is another has-been . |
| 29 | On for Lent and Passinontide . |
| 30 | Is there any one area you are being asked to focus on for prayer or action ? |