Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of unrestrained traffic on through roads edged by noise bunds was early rejected as failing to deal with problems at source . |
| 2 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 3 | and er , we were like , we was on about , you know like we were talking about the education system and everything in English and you know I told you they were on about people changing at eleven and everyone else in the class wanted the thirteen system except me , it 's only cos what they 're used |
| 4 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 5 | We have n't had the computer on for ages have we ? |
| 6 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 7 | But the individual members of Lloyd 's , mostly people who were dabbling way over their head in a subject about which they knew little , were often persuaded to hang on for things to improve . |
| 8 | Kate managed to persuade one of the drivers of the hire cars Carlisle Flint had laid on for sponsors to drop her back to the hotel where the team were based . |
| 9 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 10 | And it was Charlie who set up the winner with a headed flick on for McNally to score from eight yards out . |
| 11 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 12 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 13 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
| 14 | So I took on as yard took on as yard foreman on the following Monday . |
| 15 | MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan . |
| 16 | Then he put his arm round her and his wife wo n't curtsy , she 's Dutch , the Dutch are just as bad as anybody now , just lately , I mean lot of these terrorists get in through Holland do n't they ? |
| 17 | The last group of 850 Belgian paratroopers flown in during September to help evacuate foreigners from the country was withdrawn on Nov. 4 . |
| 18 | It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it . |
| 19 | The European Council " underlines the importance of respecting the timetable laid down for ratification to ensure in any case the entry into force of the Treaty as of Jan. 1 , 1993 " . |
| 20 | Consequently , he plundered the sanctuaries of Delphi , Epidaurus and Olympia , and gold and silver were collected throughout the Peloponnese to be melted down for coin to pay his armies . |
| 21 | The time limit for setting the action down for trial runs from close of pleadings so that it is possible to set the action down the day after the plaintiff 's solicitor sends off his list of documents . |
| 22 | And our competitors are still envious of our unique techniques — handed down for generations to last a lifetime . |
| 23 | Tony Cascarino had a close range effort blocked by Chris Woods after 21 minutes , but Chelsea finally drew level when Gavin Peacock chested the ball down for Lee to shoot past the England keeper . |
| 24 | ‘ Neil Kinnock , ’ the SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars said , ‘ would boil his granny down for glue to win votes . ’ |
| 25 | Wilson , another former Forest player , sent over the corner which Shirtliff nodded down for Hirst to score his 19th goal of the season . |
| 26 | The plant had been closed down for repairs following an explosion at the St Petersburg nuclear power station , where similar equipment was in use [ see p. 38843 ] . |
| 27 | Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs . |
| 28 | ( Although the repayment amounts , per month and total , were scaled down for people considering smaller loans , the numbers of months and APRs were identical . ) |
| 29 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 30 | Industry troubleshooter Peter Ryan , current chairman of airline Dan Air , will shortly move in as chairman replacing Mr Torday , who will concentrate on his role of chief executive . |