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Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval .
2	She keeps on about all the time , every time I 'm there .
3	We was on about those the other day cos now they 're so tiny
4	Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’
5	One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy .
6	How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’
7	But did n't it go on for such a long time !
8	After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile .
9	Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites .
10	‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left .
11	Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field .
12	The thing went on for half an hour at least .
13	If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour —
14	The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job .
15	Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off .
16	But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ?
17	The Golden Girls on for half an hour .
18	Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense .
19	It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing .
20	Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it .
21	Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it .
22	I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour .
23	Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ?
24	I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night .
25	It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment .
26	But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’
27	I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to .
28	send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something
29	‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour .
30	There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast .