Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 2 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 3 | The road goes on amid scenery of increasing charm along the bonny banks of the loch , which at its head is succeeded by the emerald pastures and rich woodlands of Strath More . |
| 4 | Work by Peter Collett , an Oxford academic , has shown clearly that what goes on in front of the telly is , in practice , virtually anything . |
| 5 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 6 | PETER SHILTON is 90 minutes from a potential disaster — but the former England international vows to carry on as player-manager of Plymouth even if the club lose to non-League Dorking tomorrow . |
| 7 | Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds . |
| 8 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 9 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 10 | and then they 'll just pick one out of that to go on as part of the calendar . |
| 11 | ‘ Being left hanging on without explanation of what 's happening ’ , that 's your frustration . |
| 12 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 13 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 14 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 15 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 16 | The heavy Roman-emperor head with thinnish iron-grey hair brushed forward , the nose , broad and fleshy , and the mouth fallen in for lack of teeth , was not a comely picture . |
| 17 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 18 | In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament . |
| 19 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 20 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 21 | If she pulled they would come crashing down on top of her , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 22 | These can be broken down into organisation of money , time and preparation . |
| 23 | The prosecution claimed in its opening address that one of the men accused of the killing had broken down in front of his wife and confessed to the murder . |
| 24 | And the Midland actually goes down to sort of the top of erm Cambridgeshire , |
| 25 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 26 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 27 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 28 | Andrew is used to being the centre of attention , especially after last summer when he did the unthinkable by stepping down as captain of Camborne to join Redruth , their neighbours and rivals — Cornish rugby 's equivalent of a footballer leaving Manchester United for City . |
| 29 | His small , glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit . |
| 30 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |