Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 2 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 3 | Then I got on to James again . " |
| 4 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 5 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 6 | Anyway , I 'll meet you down here tomorrow , tell you how I got on with Gazzer . ’ |
| 7 | They were sage young people and got on with Christopher . |
| 8 | I got on with Heather 's bath and feed . |
| 9 | Harris did n't get on with Kirk Douglas when they made The Heroes of Telemark in 1965 ( but then at that time few got on with Douglas ) , and just a year earlier he crossed swords with Mr Epic himself , Charlton Heston , on the set of Major Dundee in Mexico . |
| 10 | She got on with Victoria like a house on fire ; as for Mrs Funnell , she even chipped that old lady . |
| 11 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 12 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 13 | Frank was convinced of his arguments and fought bitterly with Tom , another academic , when he mocked the whole system . |
| 14 | Coke 's juridical ideas lived on through Hale and Mansfield and his political ideas filter through the work of Blackstone and Burke . |
| 15 | This he passed eventually to Richard Hakluyt [ q.v. ] for publication in his Principall Navigations in 1589 . |
| 16 | We crossed the silent wilderness north of London , the grass withering under a warm sun , and passed eventually into Leicestershire . |
| 17 | " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass . |
| 18 | The coroner swept his beaver hat from his head , scratched his balding pate , winked lecherously at Benedicta and turned to watch a now frightened taverner bring across a deep pewter bowl of sack and cups of wine for his companions . |
| 19 | Leaving a toisech in charge , Thorfinn rode on with Tuathal and the advance group . |
| 20 | Philip then returned to Paris , while Richard , keeping abreast of him , rode on to Normandy . |
| 21 | Next morning , with no sign of the Earl , they rode on to Berwick . |
| 22 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 23 | HEALTH MINISTERS met secretly at Chevening last week to agree a strategy for winning the propaganda battle over the Government 's NHS changes . |
| 24 | At 0800 hours Guiding Lights steamed slowly into Millbay Docks at Plymouth flying the blue " under arrest " ensign and escorted by the cutters . |
| 25 | The sail was only too short , and after rounding Toward Point , we steamed slowly into Rothesay Bay , whose shipping and surroundings brought to us manifold reminders of city life : it was a strong contrast to the quiet of the Arran hills towering heavenward above the encircling wreaths of mist . |
| 26 | Tears brimmed on to Maggie 's cheeks and she brushed them away hurriedly . |
| 27 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 28 | Aristotle was made to report what was obviously an imaginary conversation with a Jewish sage whom he supposedly met somewhere in Asia Minor . |
| 29 | Undaunted Mountbatten battled on , but he could do little to prevent the fait accompli that led eventually to Dien Bien Phu . |
| 30 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |