Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When federalists bleat on about how interdependent the world is , one wonders what world they live in . |
| 2 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 3 | They had liked each other , got on with remarkably little rancour and he had been genuinely upset , if principally in his pride , when she had left him . |
| 4 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |
| 5 | There is a minor cill just downstream ; the headlong descent goes on with only 50 yds ' respite before the 350 yds continuous grade II rapids leading to Dulnain bridge . |
| 6 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 7 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 8 | ‘ So she goes on about how wise he is , and what a brilliant speaker and … |
| 9 | It is more difficult to understand the senseless vandalism that goes on in comparatively affluent areas . |
| 10 | But even so there is a limit to the number of owls that can be packed into an area ; each pair probably insists on at least 20 hectares . |
| 11 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 12 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 13 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 14 | A CLEVELAND school band conducted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock hopes to go on to more national acclaim . |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 16 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 17 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 18 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 19 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 20 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 21 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 22 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 23 | Rather than emulate the original , Kaiser and his cronies turn David 's innocent little rebellious rocker into a full blown free-form jazz improvisation piece that chugs along for over 12 minutes . |
| 24 | Dunedin House was built by the surgeon J. S. Land in the mid 19th century , and lived in for over 50 years this century by the late Dr Cripps , Medical Officer of Health for the Holderness area . |
| 25 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |
| 26 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 27 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 28 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 29 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 30 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |