Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 2 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 3 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 4 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 5 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 6 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 7 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 8 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 9 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 10 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 11 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 12 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 13 | The managing director of Oxford United said the club will fight on for a new stadium , despite planning problems . |
| 14 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 15 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 16 | Behind the scenes , apparently unknown to the minister and BT , there is a hunt on for a suitable candidate , probably Prince Philip or Prince Charles . |
| 17 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 18 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 19 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 20 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 21 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 22 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 23 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 24 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 25 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 26 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 27 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 28 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 29 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 30 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |