Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 2 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 3 | I 'm not too sure how she got on with my wayward outlines . |
| 4 | She bit her lip hard as cool sun lotion was smoothed on to her hot skin . |
| 5 | As a growing proportion of an ageing population lived on into their eighties or even nineties , the disparity between their life chances and those of the able-bodied employed became more and more apparent . |
| 6 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 7 | Love ( 68 ) and Couples ( 71 ) clung on to their overnight lead , three shots ahead of host nation Spain . |
| 8 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 9 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 10 | ‘ She went back to work very quickly after her operation and if she goes on with her busy life as she fully intends to do , she needs a day or two off occasionally . |
| 11 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 12 | You may also need to lay on a messenger service to deliver the film to the newspaper building while the photographer goes on to his next assignment . |
| 13 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 14 | How much actual , constructive or imputed knowledge does an exchange have of what goes on on its own trading floor ? |
| 15 | This book shows teachers how they can gain a better understanding of what goes on in their own classrooms , and how to use this understanding to guide their learners effectively . |
| 16 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 17 | This ability to form a mental map and then formulate behaviour ( perhaps by imagining various alternative scenarios ) seems very like the ability of chimpanzees to imagine the solution to the hanging-banana problem by stacking the boxes in their minds before performing the behaviour for real , and of course the same process goes on in our own minds all the time . |
| 18 | At the same time Diana 's healthy lifestyle of regular exercise , little alcohol and early nights gave her the energy to carry on with her royal duties . |
| 19 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 21 | Father Cunningham plans to carry on with his pastoral work for many years to come . |
| 22 | He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work . |
| 23 | I want more people — to carry on with your footballing metaphor — to join my team , to kick the ball for me . |
| 24 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |
| 25 | Is it too much to hope that the last wilderness will be allowed to carry on in its own independent way ? |
| 26 | We need to carry on in our supporting role , offering a reliable , efficient and friendly service . |
| 27 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 28 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 29 | You could both stay on in your respective jobs . |
| 30 | Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ? |