Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 3 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 4 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 5 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 6 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 7 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 8 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 9 | She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 10 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 11 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 12 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 13 | Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 14 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 15 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 16 | Harry himself scored 53 League goals for Palace and two in the FA Cup ; how many he laid on for other forwards we can only guess at . |
| 17 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 18 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |
| 19 | Recognising that Uganda permits barter deals , General Motors Trading Corporation in Kenya , for example , negotiated the export of Isuzu buses ( assembled in bond in Kenya ) in exchange for hides and skins which it then sold on to third parties . |
| 20 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 21 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 22 | This bad feeling er lived on into old age . |
| 23 | Lived on into old age . |
| 24 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 25 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 26 | The fact is that this last Muddletonian lived on till nineteen seventy-nine , and we believe that the , the sect ends with him there . |
| 27 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 28 | His wife Hannah lived on until 24 February 1778 . |
| 29 | Henry 's only son , William , was drowned at sea in 1120 , but Henry lived on until 1133 . |
| 30 | Although Margaret 's father lived on until 1385 , English interests in Flanders were now gradually eclipsed . |