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 . |