Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | What goes right over high over the Thames . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact , Gallup 's findings indicate the swing in the marginals since 1987 differs little from that in the rest of the country . |
| 5 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 6 | He was treated badly by most of the people around him . |
| 7 | For he had not yet fallen on upon any of them . |
| 8 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , if you ask me , there 's as much goes on in most of these valleys as there ever used to be . ’ |
| 10 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 11 | What if he goes on like this for ever ? |
| 12 | This led on to many of our older members recalling their experiences too . |
| 13 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 14 | What was given to her , passed on to all of us , was a powerful and terrible endurance , the self-destructive defiance of those doing the best they can with what life hands out to them . |
| 15 | It is possible for a student who copes comfortably with the modules to go on to Higher in S6 . |
| 16 | On the A four two three , the Kidlington to Banbury road , they expect delays still to go on through much of the evening due to the traffic lights at Bunkers Hill , and on the A four two one , just south of Bicester , the changes to the road layout at the new M forty interchange has made traffic fairly heavy still . |
| 17 | Well it was really meant to go on from eight till half nine , ten o'clock which was n't quite so bad . |
| 18 | But to go on from this to the recommendation of the Bullock Report that workers should have representation on a company 's board is to change the nature of the institution , which in my judgment is quite unwarranted . |
| 19 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 20 | Then she saw him , hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates . |
| 21 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 22 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 23 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 24 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 25 | So he ungloved , and rummaged with his fingers , sucking vigorously on those till the lower half of the skull , still attached to the spinal column , was quite empty . |
| 26 | Sit in on one of my lessons . |
| 27 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 28 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 29 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 30 | He and Julius Sumawe , of Tanzania , passed halfway in 1:04:45 after easily discarding the rest of the field in the first kilometre . |