Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know . |
2 | we then drove through Stansted , Bishop 's Stortford and into the Hadhams where we had a cup of coffee with our daughter , then on through several other villages and back home to Royston . |
3 | Then on through beautiful Swiss scenery to Lake Lugano for lunch , before travelling back to Lake Como , and driving along Europe 's most spectacular lakeside road . |
4 | Weyl outlines the argument and moves on through seven spherical symmetries to the prospect of 230 crystal groups before coming to rest on thoughts of higher generality of principle . |
5 | You 're not still going on about all that star sign nonsense , are you ? |
6 | she goes on about all this but they do n't say how much it 's gon na cost , never mind the storage heaters |
7 | That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time . |
8 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
10 | There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils . |
11 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
12 | I mean that because Deborah kept going on and on and on about this three hour thing did n't she ? |
13 | We heard earlier on about this this this regimental bath I think they call it , this bath of excreta and urine and bleach and the brigadier and David Lightbown said how rare this was , er did you ever see it ? |
14 | Do n't we ramble on about some strange things June ? |
15 | The pre-senter is now droning on about another minor leak of nuclear waste at Sellafield . |
16 | With and without the capital S. You 've heard him go on about those selective hierarchies ? ’ |
17 | They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ? |
18 | The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market . |
19 | Next Friday , we 'll do our level best to keep er our hair on during another live edition of Central Weekend . |
20 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
21 | Despite his most terrible threats , he could extract nothing about what went on during those eight days . " |
22 | Now I hope that by tomorrow afternoon you 're able to say yes all those objectives have been met but it may well be and I 'm sure it is that you as individuals have other objectives , you have other issues that you want to address er or put more emphasis on during these two days . |
23 | Did very well there , getting on for five hundred pounds . |
24 | I think it 's something is n't it getting on for five hundred for the whole year was n't it . |
25 | Er somewhere about Aye getting on for five five foot long . |
26 | This went on for five whole days — |
27 | They last won the trophy in 1989 at Dagenham , when they held on for 13 memorable minutes to beat Grays 3–2 and in 1986 the Clarets beat Billericay 3–0 in a two-legged final . |
28 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
29 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
30 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |