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

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1 A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner .
2 So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances .
3 Now , we 've moved on rather into sort of individual countries .
4 Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit .
5 Traditional circumpolar cultures live on little except animal fare , whilst some of the planet 's largest populations are vegetarian .
6 ‘ I like to think that it is going on all over Masailand in fifty thousand kraals at this moment . ’
7 Lights began to go on all over Princedale Road .
8 The sides were not so much planks as squares of wood stuck on apparently at hazard .
9 American liberals have taken the lead in defining equal opportunity as the goal of a decent society , but the European left is following on only for lack of anything better to pursue .
10 It is anyone 's guess why Mr Mitterrand applauded , though he is said to get on better with Mrs T than Euro-legend has it .
11 Ask why someone reports to so and so and you will receive the answer that ‘ it has always been the case ’ , or that ‘ she gets on better with X rather than Y ’ .
12 Kylie said she got on better with men than women , but put that down to the fact that the three guys in question were the ones she most closely worked with on the series .
13 It would whirl on regardless to October the eleventh and beyond .
14 Press on Regardless by Stanley Humphrey , is one man 's story of life in the RAF from 1934 to 1946 .
15 He told us they 'd cut off the water supply to the house , and as no one can carry on long without water , he thinks they 'll surrender quite soon .
16 ‘ Are we agreed that we go on together as friends ? ’
17 Now it is not expected to go on much beyond spring of next year .
18 Both men had fought the German Abwehr in the unrelenting , clandestine war that went on daily in North Africa .
19 Er I mean they there were one or two that just went on literally for days and days and days and days .
20 We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi .
21 There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves !
22 I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see .
23 He was built like a brick shithouse and he plonked himself down right in front of the stage .
24 We bounced up , and there was Colonel Seawell 's plane coming down right in front of us .
25 Suppose he went in somewhere above Teddington — you 'd almost certainly find traces of fresh water in the clothes .
26 The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure .
27 This causes the double stranded DNA in the sample to dissociate into two single strands as the hydrogen bonds , which hold the two strands together under physiological conditions , break down reversibly on heating .
28 In their overheated frustration this Monday evening at Old Trafford they let themselves down badly through ignorance of the laws of cricket .
29 And all too often , American companies get bogged down somewhere between invention and production .
30 They said , they erm they said something or other they were going to be closing down somewhere in Cornwall because the Directory Enquiry service was not being used
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