Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 2 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 3 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 4 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 5 | She never got on with Dad , he was too sublime . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you going to do today ? ’ he enquired , joining her at the table as without further ceremony they got on with breakfast . |
| 7 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 8 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 9 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 10 | They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week . |
| 11 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 12 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 13 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 14 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 15 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 16 | However , as Doe 's Cabinet and military chiefs deserted him and fled abroad , Doe tenaciously clung on to power , besieged in the executive mansion with his Israeli-trained presidential guard . |
| 17 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 18 | So one bio-day placidly followed another , the ship plunged on through Highlight , and nothing at all of importance happened . |
| 19 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 20 | Palmerston received a letter from T. L. Donaldson ( 1795–1885 ) asking to be a competitor , which Palmerston passed on to Hall . |
| 21 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 22 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 23 | BALDNESS can be caused by ringworm from a fungi passed on by pet budgies , dogs and cats , says an Australian hair expert . |
| 24 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 25 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 26 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 27 | But it is always verbal and passed on in code from one member to another of various interlocking inner circles of the chattering classes . |
| 28 | Each story was separate and passed on in isolation with the possible exception of the story of the Passion . |
| 29 | We drifted ashore and the bow whispered on to sand . |
| 30 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |