Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 2 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 3 | This paper that set out the excuse me , the paper set out the details of the I T capital code goes on to ninety-four , five . |
| 4 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 5 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 6 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 7 | Got an idea it goes on till one o'clock , but , I mean they might as well keep them . |
| 8 | his brother arrives in Boston before he , miners who want the miners families ' ranch that goes on till seven thirty |
| 9 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 10 | We leave at 12.30 for Jedburgh for their ball which goes on until 6.30 am . |
| 11 | ‘ We have to be back in Duns by 8.30 am to start our riding which goes on until 2.00 . ’ |
| 12 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 13 | The Astronomer enters this under the year 835 ; but his chronology goes awry from 835 onwards , and the developments described in this passage seem in fact to belong later . |
| 14 | There remains the question as to the position where such a vessel belongs wholly to one person . |
| 15 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 16 | But by the close of business , with the Chancellor still speaking , it was just 3.1 points down at 2919.3 . |
| 17 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 18 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 19 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 20 | It goes along for twelve months . |
| 21 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 22 | Total income is slightly reduced , however , since tweed production goes down to 2 per week ( £4,368 ) . |
| 23 | Although over half of women employed full-time are members of employers ' pension schemes , this represents only about one-fifth of adult women ( Joshi and Davies , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | Now what is actually talked about , he splits down into two , he splits it down into Express , which is next day , not , all next day , and general which is two day and three day . |
| 25 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 26 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 27 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 28 | Yes , one that kicks in at six month 's half salary , the other one that kicks in at twelve month 's on half salary . |
| 29 | There is little need for directions : a much-trodden path goes upstream for two miles to Thornton Force , there crossing open ground to Beezley Farm for the return alongside the eastern stream . |
| 30 | The dominant mode saturates effectively only those atoms whose ( Doppler-shifted ) resonance frequency lies within about I " of the mode frequency : other atoms are unsaturated , so that the gain actually increases with frequency detuning from the dominant mode : the excited mode burns a hole in the gain spectrum . |