Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 4 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 9 | This bad feeling er lived on into old age . |
| 10 | Lived on into old age . |
| 11 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 16 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |
| 17 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
| 18 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 19 | One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 22 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 23 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 24 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |
| 25 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 26 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 27 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 28 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |