Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides .
2 Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked .
3 He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist .
4 Both Rachel and Nina got on well with the men , who in turn liked and respected the nursing team , and usually there was an easy-going air of camaraderie in the centre .
5 And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff .
6 I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road .
7 He trusts me , we got on well in the old days .
8 We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days .
9 Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula .
10 The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber .
11 The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines .
12 Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages .
13 A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited .
14 Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr .
15 We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof .
16 This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials .
17 Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones .
18 The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself .
19 ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’
20 So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest .
21 A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions .
22 Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard .
23 He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ?
24 When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night .
25 He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’
26 His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients .
27 But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point .
28 ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater .
29 Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth .
30 I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery .
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