Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 2 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 3 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 4 | The title and format might lead the casual observer into expecting just another general text ; but closer inspection reveals that the book assumes some basic knowledge of the subject and then goes on to concentrate on those aspects of geology of most direct relevance to society — seismic and volcanic hazards , landslides , erosion , subsidence , groundwater , and so on . |
| 5 | Yet in the tragedies these villains are never satisfied : Macbeth goes on killing like some automaton , Iago goes on destroying until he has brought everyone down . |
| 6 | And is going to carry on collecting in those areas . |
| 7 | I would always encourage students to carry on playing with these rhythms and curves that the full shape of these ducks demand . |
| 8 | He says that he 's only had two letters of objection and adds that he wonders how long he has to carry on to prove to some people that the crematorium is not an environmental hazard . |
| 9 | Do I , for general purposes , have to carry on going through all the cost estimates and and stuff like that ? |
| 10 | And erm then the Inspector then found out if this scum works is going to carry on charging through these men . |
| 11 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 12 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 13 | If one had not been inclined to before , one had to go on reading after this : ‘ Take three thrillers on a series of long-distance air journeys . |
| 14 | ‘ So we have to go on meeting like this , ever watchful , always circumspect in our behaviour when in company so no one will suspect — ’ |
| 15 | Of course , it is quite another matter to go on to argue from this very limited piece of evidence that loss of the fricative in /xt/ was embedded in the English language as a whole as a completed sound-change at this early date . |
| 16 | She must remember on no account to go on thinking about that or she might let something slip . |
| 17 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 18 | What girl would want to go on working amongst those unfortunates when they could have the comfort of Timothy 's home ? " |
| 19 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 20 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 21 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 22 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 23 | Certain other arrangements which I must make naturally turn upon this . |
| 24 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 25 | Finally the fact that a covenantor agrees only to sell to another who will accept a restraint is not in itself unreasoanble : Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's George ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 per Lord Reid . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I shall arrange it , ’ said Adam , who had no intention of producing quarterly accounts for this inquisitive journalist . |
| 27 | Unable to investigate further the boundary between body and spirit , Crookes moved on to work on that mysterious borderland , as he called it , of matter and energy . |
| 28 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 29 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 30 | The league table for parts of the body to benefit most looks like this : |