Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray . |
| 3 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 4 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 5 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 6 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 7 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 8 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 9 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 10 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 11 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 12 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 13 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |
| 14 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 15 | Recognising that Uganda permits barter deals , General Motors Trading Corporation in Kenya , for example , negotiated the export of Isuzu buses ( assembled in bond in Kenya ) in exchange for hides and skins which it then sold on to third parties . |
| 16 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 17 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 18 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 19 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 20 | This bad feeling er lived on into old age . |
| 21 | Lived on into old age . |
| 22 | His wife Hannah lived on until 24 February 1778 . |
| 23 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 24 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 25 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 26 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 27 | Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords . |
| 28 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 29 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 30 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |