Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 62 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 63 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 64 | Her arm tightened around him , her other hand resting loosely on the shoulders of another singer . |
| 65 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 66 | Callaghan stood , hanging on to the rags of his self-respect . |
| 67 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 68 | And with a wave Glenda Grower remounted and rode stylishly through the gates . |
| 69 | Such an approach can encourage low expectations and a failure to attend properly to the needs of children other than those with ‘ problems ’ . |
| 70 | Presently Miriam entered the room and found him , half dressed , sitting on his bed with his head resting wearily against the pillows . |
| 71 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 72 | Since it was essential that the moment I awoke each morning , the first words , sentences , if possible , paragraphs came readily to mind , last thing at night , instead of my prayers , my mind was instructed to grind on with the pages . |
| 73 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 74 | Erm it was actually somebody who came for an interview and you know how you sit in on the presentations when you do the group presentations ? |
| 75 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 76 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 77 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 78 | ‘ You know Daddy , ’ she would laugh defensively with the girls . |
| 79 | But you would n't think so from the arguments we have . |
| 80 | They took the cream because it goes naturally with the strawberries |
| 81 | ‘ And this year you 're crazy about Maria Luisa , ’ Ruth murmured , gazing down at the fingers she had been wringing till they were red and hot . |
| 82 | Lindsey read swiftly through the notes . |
| 83 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 84 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 85 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 86 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 87 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 88 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 89 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 90 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |